I'd much rather give free stuff to people. Given those people are citizens and it allows their reinsertion into society. Space exploration supposed benefits are far more remote and as of now, not very useful.

I'd rather invest in space to live there one day than staying on this floating rock with people that give stuff for free.

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None of us alive today will be living in space one day.

All of us alive today can benefit from assistance given to the least of us.

I want the space future too. However, I also want my time here to be better.

I won't see the space future. Sadly.

I could easily see a cleaner, more harmonious world.

Being human can suck. These discussions are one of the ways it does.

Ignoring the "free stuff" straw man but it's fascinating how someone can be so cruel to not want society to solve the homelessness problem. If this becomes a "mainstream" opinion, we've truly failed as homo sapiens.

Adding more money to "the homelessness problem" seems unlikely to actually solve the problem. It's (politically) difficult to address the underlying root causes, but easy to show how compassionate we are while subsidizing homelessness, and you get more of what you pay for, so.

You might not be able to solve the crisis with money alone but you need lots of money to solve it is my gut feeling.

Giving free stuff to people will in many cases free up resources that are currently being wasted on solving the same problem. Then there actually would be more money available for science and technology.

Spending money on third party development of tools to get to space is giving away free stuff to people (notably the part of the spend that is the profits of those third parties).