>>11115008The reason is quite simple. Huge corporations make insane amounts of money and the people who own major stakes would live such an amazing lifestyle that if their company were to go down, they would likely kill themselves because even if they were still millionaires, a millionaire can't afford even 1% of the amount of shit they do today on a daily basis. But huge corporations already have a consistent method of making money that will exist forever. For example, if you own a company that produces food then you know food will never be replaced. Your only fear is that someone will learn to do what you do, but better. So what do you do? Well, you have infinite money. The amount it takes for you to spend a weekend in Honduras having sex with 13 year olds can fuel a data science department for a century, so you do it. Who cares. Other people are doing it. If it doesn't work, then who cares. But if it does work, and you didn't invest on it when everyone else did, you are fucked! Those data scientists are going to invent food 2.0 or some shit and leave you behind!
Of course this is just an example. Data science is a meme of course will not lead to anything interesting.
