> It did not take trillions of dollars to produce you and I.
Indeed, an alien ethnographer might be forgiven for boggling at the speed and enthusiasm with which we are trading a wealth of the most advanced technology in the known universe for a primitive, wasteful, fragile facsimile of it.
The efficient ways (biotech?) are still likely to require massive investments, maybe not unlike chip fabs that cost billions. And then IP and patents come in.
