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Comment by tcbasche | Hacker News Reader

> You have to admire the billionaires who act as guinea pigs in these endeavors

Or they could, you know, stop exploiting the working class to build their massive amounts of wealth and instead pay their workers properly, prevent wealth inequality, do something about climate change etc. etc.

I honestly find it so egregious that anyone could support this crap because "ooooh space!"

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It’s a brand new industry that was created today. Sure, there are lots of problems to be solved in the world, but new industries are exciting and who knows what will come next.

I can tell you what comes next: yet more billionaires and wealth hoarding and still more problems in the world.

I guess my point is does the average person struggling to put food on the table really care that a new industry was 'created'? Is there a place in this industry for those people?

I think this touches a nerve though with the HN crowd, as this kind of argument tends to make them rankle

Anytime a new industry is created, jobs for average people are created. Many people say they are angry that average people are struggling to secure a tiny slice of a finite pie, while most of the pie is hoarded by billionaires. I prefer to believe that when a new industry is created, a new pie is created, and some average people will wind up earning a slice of that new pie. Since average people are struggling to get by, you can't expect them to create a new industry. While some rich people play golf all day, I'm glad to see that some on HN are cheering a billionaire who instead decided to put forth the effort to create a new industry.

Does the average person care? The New Mexico desert now has an employment center, one likely to grow substantially because of this achievement. The average people in that area are sure to see some benefits.

Your kids can have the opportunity to be wealthy rocket scientists. This industry comes with a lot of pride and dignity.

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