> Why not spend the effort on something with positive tangible results, like space travel or clean power? Effort/interest is not really fungible or spendable l

> Why not spend the effort on something with positive tangible results, like space travel or clean power? Effort/interest is not really fungible or spendable like this. People work and study on the things that are interesting to them. We can't just flip a switch to get everyone who's researching brains to transition to researching space travel.