This reminds me of the Superman comic where they tell him if he truly wants to help all of mankind and solve things like crime and war, he needs to provide almost limitless free energy to the planet. So they put him on a crank and make him generate energy. Mankind prospers until after a long long time Superman is all dried up and has nothing left to give. But before he’s empty he’s replaced by a new energy source and made obsolete.
This reminds me of the Superman comic where they tell him if he truly wants to help all of mankind and solve things like crime and war, he needs to provide almost limitless free energy to the planet. So they put him on a crank and make him generate energy. Mankind prospers until after a long long time Superman is all dried up and has nothing left to give. But before he’s empty he’s replaced by a new energy source and made obsolete.
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2011-07-13
Damn; that’s… sad. And it’s just the thing we’d do, too.