It's a grift, but not for you or even hipster faggots- it's to grift the gov for spending on their retarded services so they can get a guaranteed and consistent contract from the government.

Teach a man to farm; lose your government backed funding

Give a man a carrot; only the farmer gets paid

Give a man a 3D printed enzyme monstrosity at a 1cent discount from what the farmer offers; feed YOURSELF for life 

 Yes, but are they aware that they're just grifting the government (who is in turn grifting society), or are they just too high on their own farts to understand what's going on? 

 While many of these companies have a presentation that theyre singlehandedly going to save the world, from some of what I've seen- any one working for them knows its a grift and has a fairly realistic outlook of what it is, but you gotta make money somehow, and gov contracts pay