Which is great, unless your entire country is swallowed up by social and educational problems that enable a corrupt, fascist government, or if deforestation and despeciation continues at its current pace. The technological gains from rockets, solar panels, and electric cars won't matter then. Figure those things out, and then a trip to Mars won't look like a sci-fi futurist's vanity project.

That's literally one of the two high-prominence rich people who does something useful with their money (other being Gates and his charity efforts).

Buying your neighbor's surrounding houses for privacy...