Well...

and congrats on having zero linked tags, amazingly

I actually feel like I messed up somehow.

you did. just simplify.

Burt Rutan
Richard Branson
Virgin
Space
etc

Maybe not. The Caves of Steel series by Isaac Asimov predict we Earthers will be kept in our megacities, prevented from going to any Spacer planets out of a concern for our disease-carrying and barbaric ways. In the end, though, we'll take those worlds back and more.

The interim will suck balls, but we should get positronic robots, making it kind of a wash.

Space sucks for the long term, let them go live there. I just want to see earth from space and then I'm good. It ain't going to be any Elysium shot for centuries, if ever.

That's when we will invade their space station and Jodie Foster BE DAMNED.

No way! We get rid of those evil and greedy enough to be megarich and return power to the people my man... Or, just claw our way up to the top of this pile and oppress our former peers.

They will just cannibalize each other when they find out there is nothing out there.

I was implying they would build some kind of moon base where they could continue doing what they're doing but with even less accountability.

living on the moon would get old after about a week

I think it'd get even older after the fact that nobody has stretchmarks is outweighed (literally) by not being able to go back to Earth straight away thanks to zero-g effects on muscle and bone.

If you could pressurize a large enough space on the moon, you could fly all sorts of human powered vehicles. Maybe even just put on some sort of winged suit/exoskeleton and flap your arms to fly. It would take me more than a week to get tired of that.