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Originally Posted by zevokes
and again, i know this a touchy topic, so play nice.
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You're asking for trouble with this one!
Nah, but seriously. If you think that getting rid of the Nobel Prize is going to make scientists work harder, you're probably wrong.
Competition is normal, natural, and can cause people to work harder than their charitable urges sometimes. Not always, but enough to **** the rest of us. Sad, but true.
And, in a resource based economy, scientists wouldn't have any incentive to stay scientists because useful research doesn't always instantly create an exchangeable product.
It's not a perfect system. But it's one where you can survive in and still do something you love. And I, as a musician and not someone who produces tangible goods which can be traded, I think that I would get the short end of the stick if this came to pass.