[traverseda]

>Without benefactors providing large amounts of capital how would we advance our knowledge and thought?

I mean if I didn't have to worry about money I'd probably devote my life to some interesting distributed operating-system problems.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6XAPnuFjJc

I think that the people who are already creating stuff would continue to create stuff, just exactly what they create would change.

I'm less worried about who would advance our knowledge and thought and more worried about who would manage the garbage or grow the food.