The main way civilization advances is putting farmers out of business.
When 99% of the population farmed they couldn’t do a whole lot else, and the advancement of civilization, art, industry around the world, and the economic development of this country were predicated on farmers becoming more efficient and fewer and fewer farmers producing more product.
Why aren’t we subsidizing memory chip makers because 1 GB of memory sells for some microscopic fraction today compared to what it sold for in 1985?
I’m still waiting for the “you’ll all starve to death if subsidies are eliminated” line.
I can tell you one thing, you can actually live w/o any gigibytes but let me know how long you can live w/o food.