Quite the possibility. However, if a few lucky working stiffs win tickets to space, and sell them to rich individuals, those individuals will have a compelling interest in monitoring their investment. My devious plan has many aspects.
I understand your post about the ascendancy of corporations, but I'm not clear about why this would be an impediment to progress in this venture. Corporations are the active agents of investors (of which I am one), and would be powerful allies in furthering the development of space assets.
Maybe at some level of debenture. At the common stock level they are definitely forever not agents for the investors. Active and agent are the same word at root, somewhat redundous. The history of the rise of the American modern corporation is fascinating, which I never thought could be possible when I was studying physics. But, in trying to find a way to mine asteroids I have been led to study many things that I formerly viewed as attractive as [fill in your favorite noxious substance here]. The place of corporations in America and in the world seems to be vital to the present ascendancy of the West, and alone seems to make space exploration possible. How to guide it to the conquest of outer space is the problem.