The author doesn't seem to appreciate that investors aren't incompetent, but malicious.

Investing 100 years of open-source Blender does not give them any fraction of monopoly.

Even if scientists present 100's of proposals for computation (optical, semiconductor,...) they will specifically invest in technologies that are hard to decentralize: growing monocrystalline ingots, reliant on dangerous chemicals, ... if there is no money in easily decentralizable processor manufacture, then it could easily be duplicated then proposals to pursue it would basically be equivalent to begging investors to become philantropists. Quite a naive position.

It's in the interest of the group to have quality software, manufacturing technologies, ... so the onus is on representatives of the group of taxpayers to invest in areas investors would prefer to see no investment in (even if someone else invests it). Perhaps those "representatives" are inept or malicious or both.

There is real value being created by creating interactive summaries of the human corpus. While it is taking time to unlock the value, it will definitely come.