Does anybody here have an interest in macroeconomics?

[rva_jeremy]

If you don't have incentive, you don't have innovation.  Without innovation, we have a problem.

Scott, why do you believe this is a true statement? All the evidence shows that most of the great discoveries and inventions happened outside the patent system and the inventors rarely got rich off of them. Innovation seems to be something that humans do in spite of the incentive, because we're naturally creative.

What capitalism and the patent system does really well is capture or enclose innovation and rent it out to the folks who will actually use it.

Even if we didn't have innovation, I'm not sure we'd have a problem from a spiritual perspective. Ra has stated that many STO civilizations never reach great technical heights.