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Originally Posted by RogerBW
Where you might reasonably object, I think, would be if the efforts of your government were bent entirely towards that rather than, well, anything else a government might do. (And any entity with enough resources to do this would in effect be a government, whatever it claimed.)
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Surely that depends on how rich people are.
After all, I can well remember when spaceflight was obviously so expensive that only a major government could afford it (the classic space race was the USA vs the USSR). Now we have private entrepreneurs with their own space programs, and with aspirations to go beyond what any government has attained.