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Even more likely than Mars production IMO is micro G production that drops finished goods into various gravity wells based on demand. At that point you provide interesting new manufacturing capability to Earth with all of it's capital available in return in a way that also let's you significantly more easily support colonization efforts elsewhere.

IMO, that's Space X and Blue Origin's goal. The first one to become Weyland Yutuni will also anoint the first trillionaires even without the colonization efforts.

You can see Space X leading the game here with their work on Star Link. That gives them experience managing a constellation orders of magnitude larger than any before, and shows the overall strategy of leveraging extra capacity in a way that people on Earth will continuously pay for, in order to bootstrap serious micro g infrastructure.




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