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> How can you have technological or scientific advancement without someone to pay for it in advance? Who would pay for it without a reasonable expectation of getting more out than they had to put in?

Value is not the same as growth. We may pursue technological advancement because we think it will provide more value than whatever assets we have on hand. Continual reward is not the same as continually increasing reward. Continually increasing reward might be good, but at some point that goal may come at too great a cost.



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