Not everything has to serve wall street or the 1%. As environmental disasters start becoming much more common we will likely need the shortwave radio operators and the government should probably be encouraging it more as the average age is increasing rather than decreasing or holding steady for ham operators. I'm not sure why people hate those things allocated to the public like ham radio, we certainly don't need to give it up for HFT. They can get by with near light speed over wire, I don't feel any sympathy for them.