"....no doubt strong lobbyists with government to promote it as...

"....no doubt strong lobbyists with government to promote it as something of merit. Merit to whom though is the question?"

One would hope that persons of intelligence would see through the rhetoric, reasoning that picking up the pieces of failed enterprise is far more costly to the tax payer (the government), than ones that succeed, which employ staff and pay taxes.

For every viable business, there are probably many related satellite businesses supplying the original trade - and that's not counting the fringe delivery system or the coffee shop around the corner!

Shorters probably employ like minded keyboard minions,...





... who will inevitably perpetuate the practice, but my money is on the producers who actually contribute, making the country.