The fucked up thing is if they took all that sick technology and brain-power, they could 100% develop a machine that could scan entire crowds of people for lung cancer/bacterial infections/etc for medical purposes. The govt could take care of its people, costing nothing after the initial pay-off. Of course, nobody wants to actually help cure people early, but instead sell them drugs when they are sick. Volatile compounds have been proven to be correlated with cancers and can be detected incredibly early, there is a huge survival rate.