Space is the ultimate offshore location

Ever since I read this James Lovelock’s take on habitation on Mars…

“The pioneer and would be spacefarer Elon Musk has said he would like to die on Mars, just not on impact. Martian conditions suggest death on impact would be preferable.”

... I have wondered that while the very very long term project of creating human habitation on Mars could be justified inspite of its insanely prohibitive costs - what might the more immediate term incentives to build spacefaring projects be?

Yes, there is the vast untapped lucrative potential of satellite internet. And then the idea of asteriod mining for resources sounds like a sure shot . And then I heard this clip from Atossa Araxia Abrahamian’s eye opening book The Hidden Globe: How Wealth Hacks the World. Watch from 26: 45.

This only hints at all the coming drama over space property and resource ownership, and its consequent impact on global wealth disparity and distribution.