@ChadleyDudebro @BroDrillard @EvilSandmich @pepsi_man Maybe, but he's already making money hand over foot with SpaceX. And he is spending huge amounts of money on Starship.

If all he wanted was money, it doesn't make a lot of sense to do that.

He says he wants occupy mars, and so if you take his word for that, his motive could be "I want to get to mars as fast as possible, fuck everyone else"