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Currently as a novelty attraction, you go for the experience. This was the same for the other exampled, and is the same for flying cars where they're being tested.
Even electricity was launched in much the same way.
To do what when you arrive at this novel location? Leave Edison's electrocution of an elephant out of this.
Colonize space of course!
Is your imagination really this limited?
Building a proper space station as a jumping off point for further exploration of the solar system, asteroid mining, He3 mining on the moon. These are just the basic things that are envisioned/planned. All of which would require commercial space travel to be a thing. I'd much rather we extract that funding from taking a couple rich people for a joyride as opposed to getting governments to subsidize it.
If it is a benefit for everyone I would prefer the government subsidized the development of space travel by taxing those rich fucks instead of relying on their 'good will' to selfishly experience everything themselves.
I view space development as very, very, very nice to have, but not absolutely essential. I would prefer to tax the shit out of the wealthy to pay for essential things at home (such as health care), and let private equity fund the nice to haves like commercial space travel. The exception would be for science missions. I'd prefer for the government to continue funding pure research, so that knowledge doesn't get gated behind pay walls.
GPS, solar power, and a shitload of science all benefited massively from space missions that used government funding through taxes. That is the approach that I am in favor of, not space tourism for rich fucks.
Yeah, that's why I said I'm in favour of maintaining government funding of science missions.