Because nothing motivates them. It’s mostly chinese money but also US. Stop giving them it and find a better use, simple. Or say something like “I’ll buy it, if you do X”. That’s motivation. They will say “nah, if we do X, Y, you just don’t understand”. Etc etc. It was probably all said before and we are just exploring naive ideas on how the world should work. I’d just take penis city over war any day of week and thank them sincerely.