Why not use the money for projects or experiments?

Question: Why not use the money for projects or experiments?
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  experiments,
  money,
  projects
Asked by 675heak43whsg2017 to Steve on 15 Nov 2017.
- Stephen Lang answered on 15 Nov 2017:
  
  This is all about informing young people about some of their career options. If a few young people become engineers and go into developing prosthetics, in the long run it would make more of a difference to amputees than a relatively small contribution to a particular project.

Question: Why not use the money for projects or experiments?