Ferengi Rule of Acquisition #17: "A contract is a contract is a contract... but only between Ferengi."

Wow. What a textbook example of a concern troll.
You sound like every member of the legion of small-minded school administrators, petty bureaucrats, complacent autocrats, and religious dogmatists that have been ever retarding the expansion of knowledge and technological progress, since before there was there was even a way to record human history.

"I'm shocked! Shocked! To find that gambling is going on in this casino!"

For a "skeptic" to "re-educated" I would assume they would have to be educated in the first place...

Unless you're a genius soloist; who can sell CDs and be a draw for concerts on the basis of your name and reputation alone, no one becomes a concert musician to become rich.

That AC is more right than you know, because the United States (and many other countries) is still mired in the 19th century's broken and degrading Prussian "factory for minds" system. Practically all of your "advancements" in "educational theory" amounts to shuffling the deck chairs on the Titanic, as the central tenet of the Prussian system's Industrial Era-philosophy is that minds can be "standardized" like machine parts coming off an assembly line is ultimately rotten to the core.

That's because greatest compilation of human knowledge ever collected is about half pornography...

To paraphrase Mahatma Gandhi:

"European civilization would be a good idea."

If "optimizations" provide an advantage that others cannot take, it is in just about every other context OTHER than taxes, is not called "abuse" as it's properly called: "CHEATING".

From doping and steroids in sports competitions; to bots and hacks in video games, aimbots in FPSs, and teleport hacks in MMORPGs, for instance. If I can't take advantage of the same accounting and off-shore account shell-games "optimizations" that corporate "persons" take advantage of, WHY THE HELL CAN'T I CALL IT CHEATING!?

Dear AC, you need your moral compass re-calibrated as it's badly mis-aligned.

Nuclear power looks cheap on paper because the costs are hidden because the costs were are borne, not by the nuclear power "industry", but by the taxpayer. The United States' nuclear power "industry" is actually a beneficial byproduct of the U.S.'s nuclear arms race with the (then) Soviets.

Also, unlike gas, oil, coal, or renewable plants, the total cost of a nuclear power plant cannot be determined until AFTER the plant has been closed, because on top of dealing the spent fuel, the plant itself must be carefully dismantled and interred, which is both costly and labor-intensive.
It's like having a mortgage with a massive balloon payment that must be paid after the house is knocked down (then you still have to keep paying to store the debris, because it's hazardous).

Nuclear is NOT a good energy solution, because of reasons that have nothing to do with the typical hippy "no nukes"-things, NOR is it a reason to stop support for renewable sources.

PROTIP: Letting the deniers "debate the controversy" is a sucker's game; it's a form of "rhetorical judo" which forces a skeptic (a GENUINE skeptic) to always make the first move in a debate, to which, the denier would have a list of cut-and-paste talking-points to give a canned response or rhetorical evasion.
It's letting a kook make a extraordinary claim ("All the scientists in this scientific field are WRONG, but I'm right!"), without extraordinary proof. Every. Single. Time.

It dosen't matter is the field is: cold-fusion, round-earth-ism, tectonic plates, smoking's link to cancer, evolution, or climate-change, the deniers all use the same play book (and in the case with smoking-causes-cancer and climate-change denialism, a lot of the PLAYERS are the same, q.v. the Heartland Institute)

Actually, the actual number of bozos are apparent from reading your post: one. You'll never guess which one though.
Occam's razor cuts both ways...

This sounds like the M.O.M. (Mind Over Matter) implants for the "Crazies" OCC from the Palladium "Rifts" dice-and-paper RPG.

Where electrical implants to stimulate the brain to treat mental-illness were found to have the unintentional beneficial side-effect of stimulating latent psychic powers in patients... which naturally (this being an 80's cyberpunk-with-magic hybrid RPG) led to weaponization.
However, the implants used to artificially stimulate psychic super-powers in psycho-normative people, would over time, create mental instability in users, and as delicious irony, would eventually lead to insanity, hence: "crazies".

Is your buggy and bloated crap even worth ripping off?
The fact that you aren't getting paid what you think your product is worth is not so much about piracy...

...so much as your delusions of adequacy.