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"...those that do [show creativity and original thinking], will do so regardless of reward or risk." I disagree. I think that there will be some people who wi
by spin 13y ago
"...those that do [show creativity and original thinking], will do so regardless of reward or risk."
I disagree. I think that there will be some people who will be creative no matter what. There will some people who won't be creative no matter what. And there will be some people in the middle who could swing either way.
As an example: I think that Steve Jobs would've been creative and ambitious no matter what. But I don't think that Wozniak would've been ambitious if it wasn't for Jobs pushing him.
Certain environments foster creativity and experimenting. US colleges are full of weird intellectuals with crazy ideas. OTOH, Your typical, say, police department (or most government agencies...) is not.
The environment that we live in will tend to sway people in one direction or the other. (... just look at the environment of S.V. or YCombinator...)
- sitkack 13y agoI totally agree, I was thinking entirely of the former. The state knows it needs some of those people to go forward. But they will produce no matter what. Limiting the number of people on the second set is of little detriment and actually what I think is the goal. Yes the total creative output is lower, but control is still retained. The state maximizes for control, not creative output or liberty. It is really sad the NSA thing existed in the first place. A waste of intellect, creativity and resources on all sides. All those TFLOP years of computation for what?
- ahomescu1 13y agoIt's funny, I was just thinking of what would have happened if Steve Jobs lived in a Soviet communist country (there's a discussion about communism in another thread). I don't think he would have succeeded, considering he would have had to get approval from the Party/current leaders for every little thing he did (or even just the big things).