[topaz0]

It is society collectively, by allowing those .1% of people have enough money to be able to fund such things on a whim.

[lreeves]

Allowing is doing a lot of work in this sentence when in North America pretty much all political parties I can vote for (that have a chance of winning) support the status quo in power.

[topaz0]

Very true. That too is a feature of our society.