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This is such a load of nonsense. Did Curie, Feynman, Einstein, Turing, Berners-Lee, and the inventors/scientists behind 99% of human history do it for the money? No. Of course not. How absurd and insulting to cheapen the wonders of their invention and minds with the banality of money.

In fact, imagine how far we'd be if great minds weren't restrained by having to pay rent, or work around mainstream stupidity, or having to use cheap equipment, or facing patents and other laws created to protect the captalists.

Just because we've never seen a working communist country, it doesn't mean it could never work - to think otherwise would be luddite and ignorant.



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