Its preference for investing in chancy real estate speculations instead of focusing on an overburdened transportation system and crumbling regional infrastructure has been a long-running scandal.
Meat needed archers and beaters to produce, a chancy and costly process, and so was transformed into the preferred diet of nobles and wealthy merchants.
Investing in a startup through crowdfunding would be even chancier, especially given that it would not be subject to the same rigorous financial reporting as a publicly traded company.