Flagged because the comparison of asset cost to operational cost is nonsensical.
It's like telling someone buying a million dollar apartment "but you could rent a mansion for a million dollars/year instead".
It's like telling someone buying a million dollar apartment "but you could rent a mansion for a million dollars/year instead".
And this is the problem with the comparison. To fund a space mission, Facebook would have had to either try to realize the value through another huge stock sale, or it would have to use up its cash reserves. The first option is essentially impossible. The second would lead to massive lawsuits as well as having a very uncertain outcome (you think a bunch of web designers could really build a rocket?)
I guess I could write an article comparing how crazy it is that [someone] bought a plane for [millions of dollars] when they should have known that there are many websites that will let them book a flight for [a few hundred]. Using this logic [someone] could have booked hundreds of flights for the same cost! If only they had known better.