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"You want doctors and researchers to be paid more than football players? Just find a way to make them more lucrative than ads." It's a rather reductive and def
by andrepd 7y ago
"You want doctors and researchers to be paid more than football players? Just find a way to make them more lucrative than ads."
It's a rather reductive and defeatist view. There's nothing more harmful than looking at a specific state of affairs and going "eh, that's just the way the world works", as if our current economic system was an immutable law of nature.
- jodrellblank 7y agoI don't know how you get from "find a way to change things" to reading "the current state is immutable", but I meant exactly the opposite, it's changeable and dynamic and changing. The brightest minds are working on ad-tech, not as an immutable law of nature, but because that's where the incentives are, and if the parent commenter wants that to change, whining about how the OP isn't more charitable won't solve it, like whining that open source developers don't work on what users want instead of what they want won't change it; If it's all about incentives, we [1] should look towards finding a way to incentivise the more desired outcome. [1] parent commenter alone, or society generally.