Remember when you were a child and your imagination wasn't killed yet by money and politics?
If only I had been given fidicuary responsibility for millions of peoples life savings. Then I could build a car that has 0 chance of ever reaching production, just to impress my friends.
Imagination is powerful.
The Apollo program was taxpayer funded. It's priority was to develop and test ICBMs for delivering nuclear weapons, the most destructive thing man has created to date.
The IC's were for the same program.
We went to the moon on a murder mission, so you're right, this is not entirely unlike the Apollo program.
Destruction of the future only requires your passive participation and rosey glassed outlook.
A pox on anyone who does the math which would break those glasses.