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by MereInterest 4282 days ago
>Some people are quite satisfied advancing their own lives and that of those who are close to them.

That is quite true, and that is the problem. It is an inherently different philosophy, whether one's work should advance humanity as a whole, the local subset of humanity, or the local subset of humanity at the expense of the whole.

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They could always be using the money they're making from selling handwriting-robots to fund homeless shelters and college scholarships.