Indeed. Shows the problem with late stage capitalism. Technical development is misdirected by being driven only by investors seeking to invest for profit. As the set of safely consumable resources depletes, driven by the gearchain of money-as-debt, depletes , the set of possible profitable things to invest in, which might also benefit humanity, also depletes. The noose around the neck of our species just gets tighter, the longer we carry on with the unsustainable system of technical capitalism (The practice of valuing, and monetising capital, as opposed to valuing and monetising energy, which we should be doing).
The sooner we move to energyism, the better, it seems to me. Ironically, structurally removing all possibilities of investing for profit will benefit investors in ways they can't seem to imagine, but everyone else can see clearly. But it is the investors who are in control, whilst everyone else looks on helplessly.
Well not quite everyone, due to profit driven social bubbles, and not quite helplessly, thanks to the social bubbles constrructed around them by the sytem constructed for profit being less than perfect, we can ask awkward questions, like the one I asked.
I would encourage everyone who can see this to keep asking these questions which have no answers.
If we keep exposing the profit monster at every opportumity, it can't hide any longer, it seems to me.