The $500B wasnt given to the founders, investors and execs to do it better. It was given to them to enrich the tech exec and investor class. That's why it was t

The $500B wasnt given to the founders, investors and execs to do it better. It was given to them to enrich the tech exec and investor class. That's why it was that expensive - because of the middlemen who take enormous gobs of cash for themselves as profit and make everything more expensive. Precisely the same reason why everything in the US is more expensive. Then the Open Source world came out of the left and b*tch slapped all those head honchos and now its like this.