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Maybe for astronomy, but it seems pointless. If you’re shipping a load from Terra to Luna, wouldn’t you want all the clocks to be perfectly synchronized? People in the Martian and asteroid colonies aren’t going to need to get up at dawn to feed the chickens. One time for the whole solar system. imho
Greed. A sane person will walk away from working once they have enough saved to comfortably retire.
$100 million can let you live comfortably forever, but there are plenty of people who want that much every year.
Those are the folks who become ‘leaders.’