For another, the spaceship that would carry the tourist is still being developed, but the company has named the man who would be the first passenger, a Japanese billionaire who's bought out the entire flight.
The city has the budget, the state and federal government have the budget to buy out vacant housing and underutilized hotels to house every unhoused person in New York, almost immediately.
By all means let the happiness-market sell us minor satisfactions and even minor follies so long as we keep them in scale and buy them out of spiritual change.