we can go back to Leonardo Davinci(and further), to how Davinci was promised the income from a certain amount of flow from a river as a payment for services rendered, and as an ongoing retainer and support, but how in his own note books he laments how he had been strung along and never given anything amingst the wranglings of those "better conected". there is nothing more provocative to the mindlessly greedy people in the world than a resource, just, JUST!, LAYING THERE! for which the French created "the argument that ends all discussion"