[kazagistar]

Do we actually need creative inventive people? Maybe at some point we run low on truly innovative new ideas that are truly practical. Maybe we just start re-skinning the old ideas and selling them for no real benefit, and could do without the whole process. Maybe that's already in the process of happening.

[oblio]

Basic research needs those people. And in the end they win. That’s how we got the alphabet, iron working, etc.