I'm always wary about making that point though, because it makes it seem like we want an economy that just operates on passion projects alone, which is obviously not going to be functional. I usually just point out all the nameless researchers and scientists who do most of the innovating but never become billionaires as evidence that no, one person does not need to have wealth equal to the GDP of a country for people to have cool toys
Lmao, who reads the lore? Gets in the way of installing 60 mods and constantly crashing the game
Confused as to how mod culture doesn't make leftists
I mean it's literally what we want, the open source dream, or it was before modding became a cottage industry
Modding is indeed a great example of why "people won't do work without monetary incentive" is extremely wrong.
I'm always wary about making that point though, because it makes it seem like we want an economy that just operates on passion projects alone, which is obviously not going to be functional. I usually just point out all the nameless researchers and scientists who do most of the innovating but never become billionaires as evidence that no, one person does not need to have wealth equal to the GDP of a country for people to have cool toys