The 100 M builds influence. It keeps growing. The fundamental issue imho is that work is done first by getting your hands dirty and second by building machines

The 100 M builds influence. It keeps growing. The fundamental issue imho is that work is done first by getting your hands dirty and second by building machines to aid the hand work which requires dirty hands and more machines. Some planning, optimization and designing will have to be done but this should be of a temporal nature and is ideally done by people doing the grunt work. You can get away with not doing it like that but reality will slowly catch up. You need to plan the [proverbial] factory and optimize the process but the rewards (while starting big) gradually decline. Each new design will be better than the last but eventually it is good enough. There is more value in swapping parts and having experience with a fixed design. People in all positions are way to comfortable where they are and have way to little resources to just walk away, hop jobs or get fired. Simply living is way to expensive because of these same entitlements. It's quite the circular process.