Losing Money to Become the Richest? I’m Clearly a Guide to Civilization!

After binding myself to a money-losing System, I pour cash into the great craftsmen of my country!

I dump forty billion into a giant domestically made telescope: use the mirror blanks for firewood? Waste tons of welding rods? Burn it all!

When the chief engineer points at the maintenance bill with trembling hands and says, “This telescope costs 600 million a year to run!”

I smile and open a new proposal. “Don’t rush. We’re just getting started.

“Take a look at this fusion experimental reactor!

“Take a look at this Dyson ring!

“Take a look at this solar-orbit accelerator!

“Going broke on scientific trial and error until I become the richest man alive. That’s perfectly reasonable, right?”