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The argument is rather that a layman should not be in charge of redirecting talent from one research effort to another, because they are a layman. It's a "utop

• username223 11y ago
  > Billionaires can boss people around. Not much to do about it. Work toward a system that creates fewer billionaires, maybe?
  • adventured 11y ago
    Ideally we would have drastically more billionaires, so long as they're produced out of economic expansion. The rise of the plentiful billionaire has coincided with lower global inequality, radically lower infant mortality, less war, far greater standards of living globally, increasingly plentiful food and scarcity of famines, increased life expectancy, higher real median incomes, etc. Humanity has never had it better, not even remotely close in fact.
    • username223 11y ago
      Ideally we'd have drastically more $100k-ionaires, i.e. people who don't have to worry about basic needs, but who aren't rich enough to manipulate laws and their fellow humans to their own advantage. Unfortunately, things haven't been headed that way for the past few decades.