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Money is not the "only" reason people do things. But it sure helps. Would we have nearly as many slime-balls scheming up ways to plaster ads upon everyone's e
by cucumber3732842 2mo ago
Money is not the "only" reason people do things. But it sure helps.
Would we have nearly as many slime-balls scheming up ways to plaster ads upon everyone's eyeballs and record our every movement and click if not for the money in it? At a societal level almost nothing ever gets done at scale if there isn't money in it. You remove the financial incentive and things atrophy, new investment stops replacing old, etc.
- 1718627440 2mo agoSure, but the incredible skilledness in a single craft, which we are discussing here, doesn't happen at a societal level. That is the hard work of an individual and has always been.
- cucumber3732842 2mo agoAt the societal level it's a numbers game. These people are the end of a very long tail. If you reduce the area under the curve you also reduce the long tail.
- cindyllm 2mo ago[dead]
- NetMageSCW 2mo agoMuch of today’s world run on FOSS that says exactly the opposite. Gnu, emacs, Linux weren’t created for money.