Hacking society and extracting value will always be more profitable and prestige loaded within the group of smart people as long as it is not shunned culturally

Hacking society and extracting value will always be more profitable and prestige loaded within the group of smart people as long as it is not shunned culturally. The "top that" nature of intellectual exploits and society measuring success in monetary output (even though that value shrinks when the physical reference frame shrinks) makes the culture of HN and Wallstreet are a obsticle to scientific progress. Optimization for minimal effort maximum output of intellectual archievements, traps humanity on a local maximum. My house, my car, my boat at every grill party will prevent grill partys from continuing because nobody gets a big house, big car, big boat by farming. Now if only we had a stereo type, displaying monetary rentseeking as a despicable endavour, we could go full circle and get on with it.