dan-gittik

We actually have a video about very similar topics, would love to hear your thoughts about it (I feel comfortable sharing it since everything we're doing is actively anti-commercial and not about us at all, so it's not so much self promotion as looking for feedback): https://studio.youtube.com/video/Z44MoKURvXw/edit?c=UCs1NsN7...

If you also prefer text, I can link a Google doc.

Until there's something more refined, you're welcome to read it here, if you'd like (it's actually quite structured and dense to begin with, but I understand the aversion to video): https://docs.google.com/document/d/1j1tWbud0srE8YJHFAqtgdGNk...

Would love to hear your thoughts, since it does address a lot of the things you talk about.

How can you possibly claim something like that? Which innovation, from fire, gardening and clay, to algebra, vaccines and the internet, had no real application in and of itself? It's only recently that we've started commodifying everything in "products"; there are other ways to live and do things.

I generally feel that people here comment without checking out the source. Could it be the case? And if so, isn't it a bit of a weird thing to do? Like, are we here to share and discuss useful information, or throw around general opinions about abstract subjects?

Thanks for the contribution, and the assumption that one afterthought by you would probably be more valuable than a stupid video. If you'd actually watch it, you'll see it addresses exactly what you said, and why it's wrong: the good parts come from collaboration, happen simultaneously in different places by different people, and the "success" you see certain "brilliant" people achieving is mostly in stomping out the competition for an idea that was never really theirs (not to belittle them or anything, simply because almost all of it relies on accumulating human knowledge). And if you think competition is the only way, there's a stupid video about that as well.

Essays are coming, by the way, they just require some formatting and references. Believe it or not, many people prefer to see a person talk to them than to skin through long texts on the internet.

I meant specifically bison, thanks for clarifying.

Based on what are you saying that competition is a good incentive to move forward? Did you watch the video? Einstein didn't discover the theory of relativity for money, and Leonardo de Vinci did most of his research in secret. In fact, what incentive competition does give, is to sabotage others; and even when it's not too extreme, how can you seriously claim that it's better than if the people involved were all collaborating?