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$4B is not even close to enough to do either of those things. The Apollo program cost $283 billion in inflation-adjusted dollars.

Technology improves though. You can expect SpaceX, and maybe BO, to have spent <20B once we get there.

I'm talking about gazilions in charity which goes to waste, with that $4B being a very small part of.

And how exactly would a moon colony help feed those people needing charity here on earth?