You're trying to have it both ways. That you ridicule others for not buying into the Fantasy of something for nothing tells me all I need to know.
Some things are so obvious, you can't take seriously those who deny them.
Tell you what - if you think the goods are in the ground, write the company a check as a no-interest loan for a ten year period. You seem think that is how the game is supposed to be played (by someone else). If you don't think the goods are in the ground, you're wasting everyone's time, including your own.
Seems simple to me.