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Re:Non-profit’s $300 hepatitis C cure as effective as $84k a... by loceng on Thursday April 12, 2018 @09:00AM (#16820407)
Society needs to create a payout/reward system, on top of a universal basic income (that society as a whole is serving and working towards using automation to increase everyone's quality of life exponentially) for breakthroughs in effort - following a chain and distributing pre-determined amounts to those who contributed (trickling into early research that's referenced) and perhaps taking into account the number of people that benefit from it -- and perhaps ongoing or future payments if the people who benefit, a royalty of sorts, increase or is a constant over time, perhaps with a cap.

Edit: To add, if everyone earns "$500,000" per year (the quality of life they have, based on what $500k of today's money could buy) and your life's work leads to rewards/payout of $5,000,000 ... the buying power of that $5M will buy you a lot more than 10 years worth of improvements to quality of life, etc.

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Re:Non-profit’s $300 hepatitis C cure as effective as $84k a... by Consultant32452 on Thursday April 12, 2018 @10:03AM (#16820994)
>To add, if everyone earns "$500,000" per year

The global GDP per capita is more like $10k/yr. That's a much more realistic number.

>Society needs to create a payout/reward system,

Society already has a payout/reward system. Unless by "society" you mean the government. And by government I assume you mean Donald Trump.

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Re:Non-profit’s $300 hepatitis C cure as effective as $84k a... by loceng on Friday April 13, 2018 @11:38AM (#16831010)
You misunderstood me. Money is a human-made concept, it's simply a promise of work to be done or resources provided. So let's take that $10k/year number (I don't know if it's accurate), what I'm saying is that we could provide everyone else with $490k/year more worth of value into their lives - at "no cost" to anyone else, because it would be value created through automation; we have to of course account for resources used and create/produce in a 100% sustainable way.

What payout/reward system are you referencing?

Society, in the best case scenario, elects the government - puts people in a position to make the right decisions for them. One problem with the current political system and structure is that if you have only a 4-year term, then people game/play the system to give them the best looking perception so they get elected again; this in part is why I feel it will be private organizations that don't have a 4-year elected cycle process will solve this problem, be examples for wider society, and then adopt or join those systems.

I don't understand your reference to Donald Trump.

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Re:Non-profit’s $300 hepatitis C cure as effective as $84k a... by Consultant32452 on Friday April 13, 2018 @01:45PM (#16832211)
>You misunderstood me.

You painted a picture that sounded like if we could just redistribute all the wealth that everyone would live like people making $500k/yr. Except that's 50x the total economic productivity of the entire planet.

>What payout/reward system are you referencing?

When people want some of what you produce, they pay you for it.

>Society, in the best case scenario, elects the government - puts people in a position to make the right decisions for them.

Society sometimes elects Trump. And Trump is an angel compared to history's worst case scenarios. So be careful about what "right decisions" you want Trump making for you.

>this in part is why I feel it will be private organizations that don't have a 4-year elected cycle process will solve this problem, be examples for wider society, and then adopt or join those systems.

Wait, is it government or not? Because this sounds more like corporations than government.

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