You are completely missing the point. The detection of the Higgs is not the primary and absolute purpose of humanity. That it takes a massive amount of money an

You are completely missing the point. The detection of the Higgs is not the primary and absolute purpose of humanity. That it takes a massive amount of money and effort is a bad thing and it certainly isn't something we needed to do right now. If we first invested in research to make building the LHC cheaper, we'd get more benefit for less cost. That's the only reasonable criteria for allocation of resources.