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by robertlagrant 721 days ago
You have to not latch on to causes such as "advance humanity" and then justify making people do work for free. We decided a while ago[0] that making people work for free was a bad thing. There is high demand for curing cancer. Every company that tries it will hire scientists and lab techs and large laboratories, and have subscriptions to journals. Do you think all of those people should work for free, in the cause of advancing humanity?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_Abolition_Act_1833