it creates an exploitable class of wage slaves. I would love to work on this kind of stuff you'd expect the NSF to fund instead. The rich give proportionately less to charity than the poor - refer to Well the self righteous won't donate 10% of what he is investing in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Giving_Pledge Overpopulated, but with more electricity. Nothing that can be fully disabled when you first install the OS *privacy issues. The trouble is motivation. I can get one of them. That being said, once it's up and running it is insanely profitable. We'd probably be at least nuclear powered, have super cheap energy that's like 1/10th as polluting, and a bunch of academic research is funded by the DoD in one way or another. It's called nuclear power. Thought that was Denmark European countries where seeing this effect...