When one listens to politicians one is dumbfounded by the automatic adherence to costs. Not a single politicians in the world today asks people to get together and for a seed investment from the government create something for themselves. Would we not have enough volunteers to get together to provide everything necessary to run a railway line? Not enough people in the world to gather together and send a new rocket to the moon or a new space station into orbit? Only those employed by government have the ability and knowledge?
Instead we are chained to costings like Prometheus on the rock having our hearts eaten out all the time by financial stress.