Take all of the other crap in our system that we also don't need, and you are finally starting to understand the whole picture of capitalism. Before you say things like "starving us of opportunity and prosperity", though, maybe stop and ask your local watershed or coastal dead zone what it thinks of our "prosperity." Yes, billionaires are ripping us off as we follow along in their system of Systems that is waging war against our grandchildren's environment. Future people don't get to vote against us, so we enslave them with debts and technologies, hoping we don't have to watch them die before we die.

Billions of dollars to place bets that something we really don't need is going to solve the problems of all the other stuff we didn't need.