[abcde666777]

One million robots to be manufactured in a year - one million robots which will likely be obsolete within five years (if that, I wouldn't be surprised if they're dead on arrival).

I don't know the figures for Earth's resources and their sustainability, so this may be a naive take, but I'm always left with the impression that these organisations want to speedrun the depletion of the planet.

[psd1]

You're anthropomorphising humanity.

Humans are sapient; industrialists and politicians have intent. But the incentive structure is an evolved system, and that's what selects these people. The result is that humanity, collectively, is amoebic. We are probably doomed to expand until we have a population crash or until another species arises to keep us in check.

[lmz]

More customers for the related Space exploration company.

[paulryanrogers]

Assuming they don't starve to death before insert-space-company can get them to the next Goldilocks planet.

[c0balt]

The next step is just selling tickets to that flight in advance as a preorder. One could call it roadster preorders because of the difficult road ahead