> More generally, it's like this. You can argue all day about "good" and "evil", but what people respond to are incentives.

100% agree, but incentives and benevolence are not necessarily exclusive of each other.

An acquaitance wrote a trillogy. She posted all three books on Amazon for a standard price of 4.99 per e-book. She worked hard on this trillogy and deemed that it was a fair price. She sold ~10 copies of each book a month and generated revenue of $150.00 a month.

Then she made the first book free and dropped the price of second two books to $2.99 each (minimum Amazon will allow). The next month she sold 10,000 copies of second and third book generating a revenue of $60,000.

Had she stuck to her guns that she should get paid a fair price for all three books, she would still be the starving artist indefinitely.

Benevolence will not come from a political system or from the top down. I believe that it will come from the ground up. Because the revolution (much like the rebels) are not organized, but they will hopefully sway the trends for the better.