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The economy is, and always has been, the society. I get that your comments are playful, at least in part, but the thing that makes discoveries worthwhile is us
by microcolonel 7y ago
The economy is, and always has been, the society.
I get that your comments are playful, at least in part, but the thing that makes discoveries worthwhile is usually getting them in the hands of mere mortals.
- kragen 7y agoSince they put the paper on the arXiv, any mere mortal with internet access can download and read it, and some of them will find that worthwhile. The economy is an important part of society, but only part of it.
- microcolonel 7y agoarXiv works because of a combination of abundance and game theory; it's lovely that we all have access to such a tremendous resource, but it's not as though it gets to live "outside" the economy.
- kragen 7y agoThis is phrased as if it were a disagreement with something I have said. Why?