This is the column I had convinced myself not to write on the billionaire space race. I have mostly stopped publicly commenting on anything to do with the business activities of Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos or recently Richard Branson for two main reasons. Firstly, nothing good can come of publicly critiquing demigods; coming in hot as a close second to crypto, the space industry is one of the most trolled industries out there. I personally found the non-stop trolling by young, white, libertarian men trading crypto in their mother’s basements too overwhelming. Secondly, there’s a cost to this criticism. My…

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