I mean, I've got two kids and I can tell you, and this won't be news to any of the parents out there, that the first couple of years of having a kid, they're just these useless lumps.
A bunch of dead useless cash goes and sits there, which means that when cash gets withdrawn from that, when, specifically when investors and money market funds withdraw cash from it, it injects liquidity into the system.
So I wonder if we took the same amount of funding as we used for war and poured it into totally seemingly useless things, like the mating patterns of penguins, we would get the internet anyway.