If Homestead Company made eight quadrillion dollars from its first planet, that is a poor rate of return.
Considering the distances involved, it would take centuries to even begin to realize any significant return, while investing capital on earth over a long period can easily give big returns.
If the company had invested 66 billion dollars at 5% over 240 years (the expected minimum journey time to Homestead II and back - ignoring time dilation, which would greatly increase the period), they would have made the same amount of money.
The question is: did the _Avalon_ cost more or less than 66 billion dollars? It seems reasonable to assume that it cost far more. NB. it makes almost no difference if the spaceship is reusable; the replacement cost is tiny compared with the expected profit.
Movie doesn't really implies in which time it's set in so speculating economics of that world can't be called as goof.
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