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Our species is concerned with power.

And money gives you power. The greatest minds are focused on making money for themselves and someone else.

Ads make money unfortunately. Knowledge about our planet earth does not.

I guess when we advance our production techniques so much that we can produce with little effort and automatically almost everything then we can transit to a post-scarcity society where the society can put an emphasis on curiosity, spiritual and intellectual development (and entertainment, of course) instead of material wealth. Automation, AI and new form of sustainable energy would make this possible.

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