I understand the sentiment, but still must disagree. I want them to go up and successfully come back down, and make choices from a hopefully-expanded perspective. If they don't come back down, then their elected- or appointed-replacements will put even lower emphasis on space-related endeavors, or their brat off-spring will gain family fortune even earlier. Neither possibility helps us.

But I do have a "leave them up there" alternative you might like. I propose that we start passing harsh sentences on white-collar crimes, with the harshest sentences going to those exhibiting malfeasance at the highest levels of fiduciary responsibility. Such sentences would involve hard time in bad or normal penitentiaries. But... rich guys, you know, deserve better treatment than that, they say. So we would allow the richest to serve their sentences in orbit. This would get them out of the corrupted job market for awhile, and encourage them to pay a hefty fee from ill-gotten gains to avoid bedding down with Bubba. We could encourage them to spend money making their own off-planet incarceration safer and more luxurious.

Once there are people spending money to put 'maids' in space, along with teak panelling and leather-bound books and cigars and humidors and wine cellars... I think that in technical parlance we will have a certain class of problem "dicked".