I 100% agree. Somewhere over the last 50 years we went from telling our best and brightest young minds to make the world better to make as much money as you can

I 100% agree. Somewhere over the last 50 years we went from telling our best and brightest young minds to make the world better to make as much money as you can. We've even aligned our higher education institutions to that goal and not necessarily the greater good. Institutions like Harvard lead the way. They set an example by priorizong financial gains and the health of the endowment and not the greater good. I've heard it several times here on HN before. The greatest minds of a generation are working on adtech. It's important to also note that the best minds of previous generations spent their careers working on war machines. I think that is the greatest part of the whole Kennedy Apollo story. It's easy to assume that the decision to go to the moon was the difficult one. There were many reasons leading the US to need to do something during that time to stay in the space race. The big thing Kennedy did for us all was to choose to make it a civilian program and not a military one done in secret. We are at another inflection point in history now. We can choose to do something great together, as civilians, to bring us together (climate change comes to mind), or we can build more war machines and re arm all of Europe, again. It seems as though we are going to go down that path.