Like, we’re destroying the one place we know is a sure bet on where we can prosper if we keep it healthy, but instead the world’s richest man is trying to expand to other planets while this one’s ability to sustain life is in jeopardy. IMO that makes us potentially a very stupid species compared to a species that doesn’t really care about meeting other aliens because they value the life on their own planet far more than we do.
He’s as rich as he is because people agreed to give him money out of faith in what he claims he wants to achieve.
He’s one of the world’s most supported humans according to humanity’s most dominant merit system.