You can assemble stuff in space - like the ISS.
The ISS took 125 Billion and 12 years to assemble. Starship can put the same amount of payload into space in 5 launches for less than 1 billion.
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The ISS took 125 Billion and 12 years to assemble. Starship can put the same amount of payload into space in 5 launches for less than 1 billion.