Billionaires in space, thoughts?

Our future — as a species, as a world — depends on expanding out into the solar system. That's where the resources are that will allow us to stop overusing the limited resources of the planet.

The only way we're going to make that transition is if someone manages to figure out how to make money from going into space. Need a cheaper way to get to orbit? Let someone try to make money doing it. Need an inexpensive way to colonize the moon? Let someone try to make money doing it. Need to set up a self-sustaining mining operation in the asteroid belt? Let someone try to make money doing it.

Billionaires going into space is a publicity stunt, but the technology developed to allow that to happen is a step in the direction of our expansion into the system, which is the only way we're going to survive.

My 2 cents.