No, this is not where the smart money goes, as I understand the term "smart money." Perhaps you meant something else, like "the money of smart people with whom I am familiar."
It's worth recognizing that buying USD is also a bet highly correlated to the United States economy.
Regardless, I disagree with the veracity of using either term in that sentence but, apart from people like myself, you'll find much more solidarity in denigrating "finance" over "economics."
For so long as you continue to believe in intellectual property, you are not being conned. It's not about whether the IP laws are being used to your benefit (as per the GPL) or whether they are being used to your detriment (as per the major record labels.)
You must be willing to argue that for as much as they do not have a right to make a living from a failed business model.. you do not have a right to the work of other people on "your software."
We are using pootle internally to manage our l18n, the corporate belief is that we need to use internal translators on these strings because they understand the context.
How do we reduce or remove this barrier to using external resources?