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by saurik 2846 days ago
I don't even understand where you got this straw man from of "everyone should work on one thing". You do realize there are more targets out there, right? The reality of the market right now is that unless you put sufficiently high of a reward on hitting one target that you get ten people aiming arrows at it, no one bothers to fire arrows at all... there are so many things for mankind to be accomplishing :/... we just flat out don't need to figure out how to hit that target so dead center that we need ten people aiming at it: we should have people aiming at all the other targets. The most charitable version of your argument is "people don't work that way", but that's what is so depressing: people are just flat out disappointing. If we weren't so depressing that we needed competition to motivate us, we could achieve so many things it would boggle the mind.