I hate these fucking articles. That’s how it works with every new tech/industry etc. Everyone spends billions and billions hoping it becomes profitable 10-20 years from now, maybe it does maybe it doesn’t, we can’t know but that’s how this shit has always and will always work for basically every new tech or research that happens.
Maybe complain about countries not taxing corporations enough, but not how new industries and technologies are funded.
Social sciences are not science.