> You don't think that VCs are buying future cash flows with their investments?

The point is that they risk their own capital to create new opportunities in the economy. 'future cash flows' do not exist.

Which is almost the exact aim of an actual stimulus package.

>Do you think they're just giving out free money because they're feeling generous?

No. Anything that needs to be sustainable has to produce more that it consumes. And that extra production is what people happen to call profit or "exploitation" depending on the envy.

It is like saying the farmer is exploiting the fact that people can become hungry and need to eat.

Or saying that a doctors should not be paid what they want because their primary job should be to heal people.