"Governments could provide generous subsidies to reduce the barrier for entry for companies" Yes, because that went so well in the oil/coal/agriculture/chemist

"Governments could provide generous subsidies to reduce the barrier for entry for companies" Yes, because that went so well in the oil/coal/agriculture/chemistry/electric vehicles industries, creating world-endangering practices and authoritarian moguls. What could go wrong when the mogul can shut down your brain. It is funny to say the least that even here, a forum of a venture capital company, people expect "the government", the people, to give free money to companies. Has any VC ever given 1 dollar without expecting not only ROI, but ownership? Why doesn't the government own 99.99% of ExxonMobil, Nestlé, John Deere, DuPont, Tesla—they have been pumping venture capital for years, over a hundred in some cases? Right, capitalism, or with other words, socialism for the rich and powerful: all gain, no pain; privatize profits, socialize losses. This public-private model never worked, perhaps it was never intended to. It's origin is the East India Company, founded December 31, 1600, who, for all intents and purposes, owned the world for a brief moment. Brief mostly due to lack of digitalization and communication latency (London-Bengal around 80 days). The last 400 years have been a stretch of this model, pushing again and again the location of the sweatshops: from the dimly lit, fumes-filled street in the city, to the ghetto, to overseas, as Thomas Smythe [1], governor of East India Company, originally intended. It is particularly funny we cannot even truly imagine a dystopic future where a company gets to own the world, where ownage is the same as helding hostage, for the next 10,000 years since every company is inherently suicidal, another word for something which grows every quarter: cancer. Here is another solution: have a $1 trillion fund, gather some governments or ask nicely the Norwegian oil fund, fund the research and possible product development for the next 10 to 20 years, and have 100% of the technology be open, owned by all, with 100% of the profits going back to the governments/people. Companies Need Not Apply. You say this has never happened, it is unnatural? Sure it did, you see it right here in action, in this very language that we are using: could you imagine how it would be to have a company license the word "the", to have to pay a subscription for using certain "bundles" of words. Programmatic brain input/output is even more fundamental than language. [1] "In 1620, Smythe was formally charged with enriching himself at the expense of the company", a true pioneer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Smythe#:~:text=In%201620%2C%20Smythe%20was%20formally%20charged%20with%20enriching%20himself%20at%20the%20expense%20of%20the%20company https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Smythe#:~:text=In%20162....