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Originally Posted by sir_pudding
The highlands of Scotland are crap land, full of more advanced and technically Christian savages, and you can't grow tobacco there. There were economic motives for Virginia. Guys like Raleigh and Frobisher had every reason to think that it would make them personally wealthy.
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And sometimes it did and sometimes it didn't. The exact same logic applies to interstellar colonization, once the technology to do it becomes cheap
enough. There will be people who see, or think they see, opportunities. Often they'll be wrong, some will turn out to be right. Probably 20 people who go bust for every 1 that makes money, but the 1 is the one that matters.
Some would prefer to invest in the Solar System instead, many will invest in both. Some of the same people who hoped to make money in Virginia (on Earth) and Carolina also invested in the East India trade and domestically too.