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Originally Posted by nik-
Well regardless of whether you think that shouldn't matter. It does, to everyone who wants to invest money in new tech. So you're basically saying that the most important factor to an investor shouldn't matter.
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Yup. Because were talking about the potential destruction of the environment in which our species (and all species) lives.
When thinking about in that context, no, I don't think what investors want should really matter.
Profit drives (and has driven) a lot of great innovations, but it's also holding back important things while allocating valuable knowledge and resources to useless consumer products. It can't be the only force of change we use or adhere to.
And I would like to say, that much of humanities greatest inventions and innovations were not born of people looking for profit. The internet wasn't created because it would make the founders of eBay and PayPal, etc.. rich. It was founded because a bunch of computer geeks wanted to talk to each other. Wireless communication was created just because Tesla wanted to prove it to be possible (and maybe provide a means to transfer large amounts of energy wirelessly, making energy cheap to free), not because Apple or Samsung (or walkie talkie makers) decided to make phones that could use it.
It's only once these things are accepted and adopted by the masses that people actually start to create businesses around it and profit from it.