The people who had jobs building those rocket ships feel differently, I am thinking.
And instead of the government taking that money away to give to those same people in welfare, Musk actually got something in return for his money.
Which is called ‘work product’ and is wealth creation.
That same amount of money transferred by the government would get Musk nothing in return, so there would be no incentive to make it.
The same money spent hiring workers to build him a rocket ship got him a rocket ship, and they obtained work experience. Technology was advanced. Everyone was happy.
That’s the beauty of capitalism. Everybody engages in daily free trade of their skills, knowledge, productive know-how and abilities as they see fit...and everybody comes out better off than they were before.
Government takes money by force from us and pays people to be lousy lay-abouts producing nothing which corrodes the very soul. Everybody is worse off than they were before.