Investment… a loaded term for sure. A private investor has two considerations, risk and return. No responsibility to consider “the general welfare”, just total the dollars and let the consequences fall where they may. Big tobacco was a “good” investment, no need to total the lives ended, disease and suffering, broken families, great lives cut short. Nope, that investment was “all about the Benjamins”. Know what you got from the Aerospace investment? ICU monitoring, silicon chips and all the technology made possible, weather satellites, GPS, IT revolution, just to name a few.