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Ideas aren't the motor for people. Desire is the motor.

• Natanael_L 11y ago
  Relevant: https://youtu.be/u6XAPnuFjJc https://youtu.be/u6XAPnuFjJc - "RSA Animate: Drive: the surprising truth about what motivates us" Short version: internal motivation is much stronger than external motivation.
  • amelius 11y ago
    What I'm wondering about is what motivates extremely smart people to work on social media apps and iGadgets, when they know that most people care much more about: food, health, a fair economy, energy, and safety. Why are these smart people not working in fundamental physics, or medicine, or why aren't they thinking up new models for the economy?
    • NoGravitas 11y ago
      Social media apps and iGadgets are more profitable. It's almost impossible to get paid for thinking up new models for the economy.
      • amelius 11y ago
        I suspect that autonomy plays an important role here. For writing apps, you need only your computer. You don't have to interact with other people a lot. For medicine, fundamental physics, you need a huge amount of resources, and you need to cooperate with lots of people. It seems that smart people prefer complete independence.