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>>15773113
Space elevators aren't good enough to allow that kind of throughput. They're actually quite limited. Also as two other anons mentioned, the optimistic hypothetical cost/kg to orbit that space elevator proponents used to wave around is actually on par with, or worse than, what SpaceX will hit with Starship.
People in 200 years will look at space elevators the same way we today look at 1800's depictions of flying machines and bizarre "future" machinery, pic related