>>13424599Because he has no interest in the Earth, only Mars and the great beyond. He wants to build the civilization on Mars, so that he can travel there and pass away under its skies, knowing that he secured humanity's place amongst the stars. Unlike most of existent leadership across most of the space players, who want to rule over a planet growing ever closer to the next world war, and soon to be raped by extreme climactic weather patterns fueled by insufferable human greed.
Gywnne Shotwell personally believes that in her lifetime, she'll bear witness to the creation of a generation ship powered by Fusion torches that will send several thousand to several ten thousand humans on a journey to alpha centauri. That's mom and dad of SpaceX want, not some suborbital faggotry dickwaving content that's a waste of time and money.
Bezos made New Shepard ride about him and exclusively him, and the internet and the world at large is mocking him for it. Branson did similarly, though he didn't act like an out of touch old fuck and while it certainly was a billionaire joyride, he started Virgin and all its platforms for that very purpose, to satisfy his desire to go into space.
Musk on the other hand's like "we'll let the Inspiration4 and Dear Moon people experience it and talk for us in our place, while we focus on the broader mission of making the species multiplanetary."
