Imagine where our species would be if all efforts were contributed to betterment of society. Right now the missing piece to researcher A's puzzle is sitting on researcher B's bench because company X hasn't figured out a way to extract profits yet. If we managed to move toward an Ubuntu(I'm talking Michael Tellinger not Canonical) contributionist social model we would make more technological advancement in 1 year than we've seen in the past 50, maybe even 100, years. CEO's coming to the realization there is more to the human experience than profits is just the start.
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Imagine where our species would be if all efforts were contributed to betterment of society. Right now the missing piece to researcher A's puzzle is sitting on researcher B's bench because company X hasn't figured out a way to extract profits yet. If we managed to move toward an Ubuntu(I'm talking Michael Tellinger not Canonical) contributionist social model we would make more technological advancement in 1 year than we've seen in the past 50, maybe even 100, years. CEO's coming to the realization there is more to the human experience than profits is just the start.
I think they've tried that in a couple places already.
Please don't conflate contributionism with socialism or communism.