If there is one thing that gets me less excited about life than some raging religious fundamentalist shouting at me about the love of their god, that one thing is a bunch of billionaires going on and on about space exploration. Apart from discussing their next tax cut, this is all that wealthy people seem to talk about anymore. The space race used to be about asserting political power in global affairs, but now it just seems to be about the race for which wealthy person has the largest ego. And so I have begun to hear of more and more people that just are not interested in going to space to shine shoes for Jeff Bezos. Let's face it, anywhere rich human beings go, they bring their boring jobs with them and, inevitably, it will be people like me who have to do this menial labor. Of course, if life is going to exactly like it is on this planet on another planet, then the obvious question becomes why leave the planet at all or even talk about it for that matter? But you do not have to take my word for it. It turns out that many Americans share my opinion of the great billionaire's club in the sky. It appears as if, in a recent poll conducted by Morning Consult, Americans were far more interested in the protection of the planet earth than they were in exploring the far and beyond. In that poll, out of a list of twenty six issues the American people were asked to rank as most important for the Biden administration to tackle, space exploration scored a paltry and rather unimpressive twenty-fifty out of twenty six. It is difficult to say exactly why this is, but I have a feeling that once you allow the people who pollute the planet so carelessly so that they can hoard money and watch others starve to shoot off to the moon, normal people just stop caring. And it seems as if that is what has happened. Even when people were told that they could go to space for free, the majority of Americans, a shocking 58% to be exact, just were not that interested in leaving the planet to hang out with their snobbish landlords on Mars. I cannot really blame them. Billionaires kind of seem like the kind of people who would broker a deal with Congress to buy out your space settlement or at least jack up the rent on it. Seriously, why do rich people think that we care about their interest in space exploration enough to have the government raise taxes on us to fund their little alien romances. Can't these rich snobs just watch Star Trek and read comic books like normal science fiction fans? Do we really have to wast billions of dollars on their live action role playing? Let's be honest here, if you are poor in America, you ain't go the time to sit around fantasizing about the next great American conquest. You have to be down at the food bank by four pm, otherwise you will have to wait in life for an hour for those free chicken drumsticks. I still remember the days of walking, sometimes for miles, to get a box of food for me and my family. I remember getting on the bus with this huge box of goods so I could take it home for my family to eat. I remember the embarrassment that came along with that experience too. I also remember the bus driver passing up my stop and then having to get out, find a grocery cart left on the side of the street by some other poor person, and having to push that for about three miles until I finally got home. I remember being worried that some white person would call the cops on me for pushing a cart of food home too. I also remember all the hospital bills and financial aid debt that had to pile up in order for that experience to even happen. I remember working for peanuts too. I remember rich people laughing at me for not being more like them. The point is that, if I am just going to be poor and there is no real way out of it, then why even care about space? If I go to space, then I will be poor there too. So, no, I don't care what wealthy people do with their spending money. Go to space if you want, but I ain't going.