Originally Posted by Cherry7

Because if you pay billions to reward an idea of little value other things don't get done. No cure for cancer, malaria, or the basics that people don't have fresh water, homes, food.

It is a matter of proportion. The guy made a neat program not e=mc2.

The reward was totally out of proportion to the value.

A society that wanted to give all its children an equal chance could do so in a heart beat.

Send the poorest 7% of children to the private schools and the children of the rich to the poorest state schools.

In the future humans will not believe that we sent the most privalaged children to the best schools and then blamed the poor for failure.