Quick answers just for fun: 1. Technological abundance vs regulated scarcity 2. Complexity outpacing human understanding. Plus regulation/approvals. 3. Because

Quick answers just for fun: 1. Technological abundance vs regulated scarcity 2. Complexity outpacing human understanding. Plus regulation/approvals. 3. Because the FOMC controls it. 4. Reduce legal barriers to entry. 5. Reduce central control. 6. Risk minimization. 7. Trust by common identity. 8. Maybe. Pace tracking classes. 9. Money is cheap enough now for investors to fund most science for profit. 10. No programming. AI queries (e.g. “Her”) 11. Audiobooks 12. Arxiv / citation ranking 13. No. Too easy to ignore ads on text. 14. Nobody’s paying for IDEs anymore. 15. See #7. 16. See #15. 17. See #7. 18. Political vs scientific incentives. 19. contra to #7. 20. See #7. 21. It’s more lucrative to fail than to succeed. 22. I’ve heard it was due to mass burning by humans. Fire/regrowth fixes more carbon than it releases.