Oh but it is going in a wonderful investment: consolidation of elite power. When “gains every quarter” are the goal and the measure of “gains” is finance, if y

Oh but it is going in a wonderful investment: consolidation of elite power. When “gains every quarter” are the goal and the measure of “gains” is finance, if you own all the valuable assets up for trade in the finance market... But that’s ridiculous! Humans are not and never will be rational actors. They carry their childhood memes with them for life via their brains. Offer some science that refutes it if you got it, but the functional processes of literal reality trump our conscious gut and that’s a well debated fact of human behavior. The narrative has always been “protect inherited power.” We see Tonight show hosts, religious true believers, true believers in capitalism, etc stand up to protect the “torch” they’ve been handed. Symbolism above all else. Finance is another source of illusory power that we have a habit of blindly bestowing on others for emotional feels, before utilitarian value. Not saying that’s good or bad, it’s just what I find to be a reasonable summarization. What a shock! Tim Cook and the rest aren’t investing in r&d. But their era was corporate micromanagement. Business of financial economy. Not nation state building and rivalry, which flooded the economy with public investment dollars via high taxation.