[shimman]

What but? If this is the "best" that VC can do with the money, the US government should simply tax it away from them. Absolutely worse way to allocate resources and develop a robust forward looking tech industry, you're just chasing the shiny while fucking over the commons.

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Maybe my point wasn't clear, I agree with you. It's a bad way of allocating resources, and we'd had better software had we been without it.