Getting rich off various markets in life is only natural and there's nothing wrong with that. In fact, big oil and military adoption is pretty much the first step in any new, world-changing technology being then available to the general public.

Take the last frontier - the ocean. We know very little about our oceans. We know more about planets hundreds of billions of light years away than we do what's going on 200 meters below the ocean's surface.

New underwater seeing technology and autonomous drone technology is being developed - technology that could help scientists learn vastly more about the ocean and potentially develop new technologies and medicines and even food sources.

And yet the bulk of funding almost always goes to space exploration.

The first step in changing that that isn't going to be grant funding and campaigning for more public support, it's going to be military and big oil adoption by making it relevant to them.

If - and when, as it's already happening - the world's largest Navies, for example, start buying up this new technology and investing in it to catch bad-guys who are now using barely detectable narco-subs and cheap underwater improvised explosive devices, and big oil - who is seeking to drill further in the ocean - is able to utilize this technology for a better understanding of the sea floor by being able to see further and more clearly using autonomous drones who do things that manned vehicles simple can't, it will then drop the prices drastically, improve the technology swiftly, and allow it to flood other sectors and innovation.

Why people go, "Oh - folks are getting RICH off an industry!" as if it's evil is beyond me, especially considering that many of these companies creating this technology that is then getting adopted by the military industrial complex are publicly traded, which allows many people to invest and get rich on them just the same.