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I'd assign scientists a "pension" every time they make a worthy discovery. That pension would be a monthly payment of a fixed dollar amount, it would be inalien
by frongpik 6y ago
I'd assign scientists a "pension" every time they make a worthy discovery. That pension would be a monthly payment of a fixed dollar amount, it would be inalienable and paid for the rest of the scientist's life regardless of other achievements. Publishing a minor, but worthy, paper would give a 100 usd/month grant. Getting a Nobel prize would give, say, 1 million a year. However the deflation would gradually erase value of the grants.
- seotut2 6y agoHow would that fix the actual problem? And how do you judge what is a worthy discovery and what isn't? As parent said, UBI would probably fix the incentive scheme, your solution wouldn't. You need to decouple the reward from the result so that research is done out of sheer curiosity and love of science.
- andi999 6y agoYou cant decouple this (fully) with UBI. Only a little research is done at a desk, a lot need equipment, sometimes very expensive. With UBI you just get the time but not the stuff.
- Too 6y agoThis was the original intention of patents. Let market value decide if the discovery was worthy and let inventor earn from license of it. We all know that's not how it works today though thanks to sloppy patent office and abusing patent trolls.