Is there somewhere someone’s done the numbers on bootstrapping industry off world? Like what would make most sense very first, etc. It strikes me that at some point it makes a lot more sense to build the stuff to build more stuff out there.
https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/19830007081/downloads/19...
Isaac Arthur also has some good episodes (video/podcasts) on the subject of bootstrapping off-Earth industries like on the Moon or asteroids or Mars.