> When someone just gets cash grants without loosing sweet and blood how the fuck are they supposed to compete with people around the world who have that experi

> When someone just gets cash grants without loosing sweet and blood how the fuck are they supposed to compete with people around the world who have that experience? Somehow, "market forces" (in a certain not-literal sense) where supposed to take care of this. In an honest marketplace there exists a level of competition which keeps the participants honest. Back when knowledge still needed a physical merchandise-like form to be transferred (even as printed books) this market-given-honesty pattern still somewhat worked. But the modern digital age has completely broken this. There's just something fundamentally different about "cognitive commodities" (i.e. digital data) and "merchandise" (i.e. goods with physical exclusiveness) which completely changes things