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Different people are motivated by different things. While its true that scientists and engineers and everyone else have done a great deal in advancing things,
by rohit89 10y ago
Different people are motivated by different things.
While its true that scientists and engineers and everyone else have done a great deal in advancing things, the sad reality is that unless someone fronts the money, nothing will get done.
- laughingman2 10y ago>the sad reality is that unless someone fronts the money, nothing will get done. Its not the natural law of universe which cannot be changed. We humans create the systems of economic organization. So if you agree that profit is not main motivation for many creative jobs, then perhaps the optimization function of the economy should not be to optimize for monetary profits. So perhaps other modes of economic organization be explored?
- rohit89 10y agoWell, the natural law here is that we need access to resources to do anything. And money is basically a proxy for it. Until we solve the resource problem, I think other economic systems would eventually run into trouble as well. Its human nature to try to game the system.
- laughingman2 10y ago> Its human nature to try to game the system Or is the system is designed to give wrong incentives? I don't think we have enough evidence for what you take as "human nature". On the contrary the anthropological studies in Debt: The First 5000 Years Book by David Graeber, we have evidence of many primitive societies behaving more communal fashion.The resources though scarce is shared with the commune.