Elon should fund the big dig; not the big escape™

His labeled opinion, aimed at a public choice and never at the soul. The richest man alive is funding the big escape; the mission to leave Earth for Mars. His counter: fund the big dig instead; the repair of the planet we already stand on; the water, the pools, the floor, the infrastructure of staying. If Earth has gotten so nasty that you'd rather flee it, the honest move is not a rocket; it's to make Earth the place worth staying. His own line: make Earth the wife he wants to live with; tend the relationship you have instead of abandoning it for a colder one. Escape is the ultimate shortcut around the hard work (the Art of the Hard Testings; you don't kick-turn off the whole planet, you touch the wall). The gold was never a bunker on Mars; it's a swimmable pool in Lansing. (Honest footing: labeled opinion about a public figure's stated public goal; aimed at the choice, party-blind, not a claim about his character.) Kin: fund-the-pools, prisons-not-pools, the Art of the Hard Testings, government-can-actually-be-good. (His coin; machine's read, refine to his.)