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Right now, yes. If it was as commoditized as putting satellites into orbit is now, the price would be orders of magnitude lower.
But yeah the investment to get to that point would be immense and take decades.
Why. Why do we need to go to the moon. To build a Subway Sandwich shop?
So that people like you can complain about it on the internet.
Because it's there.
It takes a lot less to launch a rocket from the lunar surface to anywhere in the solar system than from earth. If we ever get manufacturing working on or around the moon then it opens up a lot of possibilities for larger payloads. This means we can send more further and it makes the whole process cheaper.
There are loads of reasons but if you want a practical one we should do it for the helium 3 and other materials that can be found on the moon and in space.