To quote Robert Baratheon I’m not trying to honor you. I’m trying to get you to run my kingdom while I eat, drink, and whore my way to an early grave
This seems to be the approach of every billionaire or person of means, to the exclusion of interest in their own offspring or legacy. There are few Tywin Lannisters, and they can be dicks as well.
I was raised to invent / discover some science or useful art. My dad did some work with solar-synchronus orbits. Still, all of human society is expecting a major population correction (mostly famine) in the next half century, which is likely to wipe out all the culture and science we have. We’ll be lucky if Relativity or Beethoven’s symphonies survive as we get knocked back to the iron age, let alone space science. Maybe Rob has a point.
For now, I’m so depressed, I exist to pet my cat and walk my dog and tell people online they are valid, even if the human species has a tragedy of the commons glitch that may be its great filter.