Comment by moffkalast
10 hours ago
Yeah if you go check almost any major scientific breakthrough of the past century it usually starts with "some guy was working in a corporate lab with an unlimited budget". We're stagnating as a species a lot more, but at least the shareholders got a payout for their hard work of doing literally nothing. Rent seeking at its worst.
Yes, let's not pay out the investors. That's how you get lots of funding.
You get funding by inventing and selling shit people need, not by pretending to be something people want.
At least in a sane world it would be.