That's just the sort of post-industrialised, ultra-myopic, zero-growth, social Darwinist Fabian nihilistic, economically defeatist Dying Earth claptrap I'd expect from a Guardian columnist no-one's ever of.
Every person that spends a million quid or more developing a safe, reliable, reusable and mass-producible technology that will decouple the potential future capacity of mankind's experience from reference to the near-inexhaustible yet still finite resource pool of Terra, held in commons, is one less person wasting a million notes trying to help the last two Pandas left alive have a successful and memorable date.
And unlike the Panda People, a million quid invested in the Virgin Space taxi programme isn't even tax deductible as a write-off - they're not blowing a million pounds each on some vanity project lost cause, they are buying a service and a commitment in something greater than themselves that they want to help happen and be a part of.
Dingbat.
Had you gone after Branson 30 years ago, for the balloons, you may have had a valid point.
But this is space, now.
There is no more NASA any more - it died under Sequester.
And no-one else is prepared to put up the money and take the risks - this is what Capitalism looks likes in all it's own favourite wet dreams, and this time, finally, it's real and someone's actually doing it right.
Bruce Wayne, MFers....
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