Capitalism is based on competition. Since competition can never be fair, neither then can equity succeed in the competition for equality, against such odds as confront government interventions designed to alleviate unfairness through manipulation of equity that enforces a fair go for equality.

And Harold Ray Ragsdale is Ray Stevens grandpa...!

Inclusion and equity is something any investor with sharps, would agree with and embrace Nick! instead of critiquing it as schlock! And judged by your own flawed standards?

You see with inclusive equity in play we can both attack and remove poverty, when and wherever we find it!

And in the process create millions more customers/consumers for the products we would, sell on, to them!

And done far sooner in far greater volume if we encourage MSR thorium power, instead of suppressing it like we do, to protect inferior products and unearned profit?

Perhaps under new enlightened Leadership, the Saudi's are growing a hitherto unknown conscience! Coupled with previously unfelt empathy?

50 million plus folk, eking out an existence in primitive refugee camps, don't drive cars, trucks or tractors, Nick!

That being so, can't consume oil!

Imagine how much money we could make off of them if they were handed our living standards? Almost overnight?

And doable if the world embraced MSR thorium and power prices possibly below 2 cents per KwH? YES!

And used that in part to burn wasted nuclear waste and desalinate water with four times less expensive, deionisation dialysis desalination.

And in that process affordably and literally turn billions of acres of arid desert wasteland into highly productive veritable gardens of Eden; and their repatriated inhabitants into cashed up farmers and artisans!?

With surplus cash to spend on previously unaffordable luxuries/whatever!

It's not rocket science Nick! Just cause and effect economics! And indeed the basis of every economic miracle or tiger economy! Moreover, hardly new unless "you" weren't looking!?
Alan B.