Almost a hundred percent of the time our society works on the premise of being rewarded for doing something. To put that in little less vague terms; we make something, and then we sell it. People like having money to treat themselves to things, ergo people keep creating more things, to make more money. That’s capitalism.

I’ve known for sometime that’s not my thought pattern, not how I feel the world should be. People should be making money to make stuff, not making stuff to make money. That just leads to patterns and habits, which are always bad for development. Ender was brilliant because he noticed this – noticed that flying in formations is stupid, people get used to formations, but never change them, no innovation comes out of it. So lets not do formations.

To make that analogy make more sense, look at cars. People like cars, they get the job done. Consumers don’t have any problems with them, and will keep buying them. So the manufacture companies keep making them. Sure, this engine goes a little bit faster, but it’s the same technology. No innovation.

I want someone to develop a new engine, which doesn’t require petrol or diesel. Maybe we can up the game even more and say lets not have any type of fuel. But Shane! You need fuel to make the wheels move! I disagree. I’m no engineer (so maybe this was a bad example), but it looks like magnets can cause a pretty powerful motor. Oh. That’s cool. Why don’t I have this in my car? Because no one wants to risk losing money investing, and researching it, and potentially realising that in fact, magnets make a sucky engine. Why look into an engine that won’t make us money?

The liberal part of me really doesn’t want the government to interfere by forcing private companies to invest in innovation. The socialist in me (which seems to be growing more and more each day) really thinks that if they’re not helping humanity willingly, maybe they should be forced.

I don’t build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build.

–Ayn Rand