I’m not even saying the specific details of what he wants are good (and, in fact, it’s now clear that they are not, and he likes saying super-ambitious stuff that is unrealistic because he thinks it makes him sound more visionary than the people who are trying to explain why it all won’t work.)

I’m just saying that wanting Mars used to put him a leg up in my mind over people who just wanted their stock price to go up and did not want Mars. I’m okay with my heroes being unrealistic, all other things being equal.