Sums up my feelings. Another good example of a thing that seems crazy and only for the wealthy was the original Tesla Roadster. It was a stepping stone to mass producing the model S and ultimately accelerating the sale of electric cars.
The dumbest part of our national discourse at this moment is:
Oh those crazy space billionaires!
How dumb are Bezos, Musk, Bransonāspending $1 billion building rockets to fly themselves to space?
What a silly Gilded Age echo of ego, indulgence, not to mention tone-deafness.