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In reply to the discussion: Just when I was really starting to like her, AOC had to come out and say, [View all]Humanist_Activist
(7,670 posts)Most of the significant medical advances weren't motivated by profit, if they were, we would probably still have smallpox outbreaks today. In addition, the most far reaching technological innovations were primarily funded and innovated by people without a profit motive, from email, to the TCP/IP protocol, the Internet itself, and, as I said, the World Wide Web. If any of these were patented or closed off for profit driven reasons, we wouldn't have the technological innovation we have today, the Internet may still exist, but be much smaller or used in different manner.
And the latest in consumer electronics benefit from this largely publicly funded foundation, this includes nearly all the underlying technologies behind the latest smartphones and other tech. What is "innovated" by for-profit corporations is usually the application of said tech.