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Board Economics
Re: People are not motivated by money.
by
SkyFlakes
on 04/10/2018, 22:35:17 UTC
I always hear the argument for capitalism "B bb BUT people won't innovate without the profit motive" WRONG

Humans want to solve problems, create, and innovate, they do not need money to motivate them.  Cavemen were painting art 20,000 years ago without the desire of money.

True scientists like Tesla, he didn't care about money it was about the pursuit of science.

Capitalism does not cause innovation, most new technology is found by government programs like nasa (internet, smartphones, etc)

If we would see it, we can see that it is a good thing tjat people are not motivated by money. People nowadays tend to live just to hav money, they lost their own self-interest and passion on doing something. That's a bad thing to see. But also there are still people that are not motivated by money but rather by their passion to whatever profession they have. This is a trait that we should have. I'm not saying that we should always set aside the money, but the thing is we should have a good balance between salary and passion in the work you have.