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by londons_explore 2607 days ago
"It's expensive and we couldn't find investors" really means "It's a lot of work, and nobody thinks it'll be worth it".

We might be able to anything, but the capitalist system stops us doing things that don't look profitable.

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Profitability at time X is a pretty decent heuristic for whether something is worth doing at time X.
How do you know that? Unknown unknowns.
Unknown unknowns are more likely to cause problems and delay completion, not accelerate development.