Fair enough, Mike. I take your point.
In fact, i do admit to being rather cynical when it comes to the motivations and machinations of today's world. I concede that their are projects out there, by people trying to do some sort of good, that are costing buckets of cash which current investors may have little short term hope of recouping.
However, i still believe that totally humanitarian/environmentally motivated, no return funding is extremely rare. With out a personal slight, just as i concede i am overly cynical, I think it a little naive to believe that this cash is being tossed about with out a view to profit when environmental necessity brings these technologies into the mainstream.
Anyhoo... I was just trying to illustrate the mainstream attitudes of a society where everything is a salable comodity subject to cost and profit analysis. Including the "business" of martial arts. Perhaps i over generalised and didn't qualify that there are exceptions, but i still believe these exceptions prove the rule.
Never the less, it has been a good discussion. Thanks for bringing it up.
Have fun.
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