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Originally Posted by elphenor
it's not as if we have no examples of people innovating just for the public good though
the Polio vaccine was released free to the public by Dr. Salk
he could have made himself rich many times over, but that's not what he did it for
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Tesla wanting to provide people with free energy. He wasn't motivated to innovate out of competition. That'd be Edison and he electrocuted a puppy just to force us to pay for energy.
When it comes to phones, Idk what the person who made that example meant.
They also used the race to the moon as an example. My rebuttal was that I doubt any of the actual engineers and scientists cared about beating Russia.
If they had free reign to innovate then we'd probably be much further.