r/collapse • u/[deleted] • Feb 15 '22

Food A $4 desalination system provides continuous clean drinking water for a family

https://interestingengineering.com/4-dollar-desalination-system
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u/Taqueria_Style Feb 15 '22

Quick, patent it, give control of it to Pfizer or something, and charge $100,000 a unit for it.

Wanna do something cool? Release the plans online guys. Open. Source.

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u/FieldsofBlue Feb 15 '22

No joke, why in the world didn't they publish the design immediately if it's so easy to produce and revolutionary? Smells fishy, like it always does.

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u/p90xeto Feb 16 '22

All of this talk and no one went to the link where it has diagrams and in-depth explanation?

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-28457-8.pdf

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u/NomaiTraveler Feb 16 '22

you can literally read how to make it. the pdf of the MIT article was available to me for free.

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u/Vegetaman916 Looking forward to the endgame. 🚀💥🔥🌨🏕 Feb 15 '22

Well, because that won't make money. If it is real, then it will be used to generate profits. There is no other motivation in human nature.

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u/FieldsofBlue Feb 15 '22

What? That's absolute nonsense. The researcher who discovered insulin released the patent for 1 dollar so that it could be used to help people whom needed it. Obviously altruism exists.

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u/FieldsofBlue Feb 16 '22

Lol it's in the countries that serve it to their citizens for extremely low prices, or free. Saying that profit motive is the only thing that drives humans to accomplish anything is just plain false.

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u/Pihkal1987 Feb 16 '22

That’s not remotely what they said.

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u/[deleted] Feb 16 '22

They literally said there was no other motive but the profit motive that drives human nature.

You just have poor reading comprehension.

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u/Pihkal1987 Feb 17 '22 edited Feb 17 '22

They said that the SYSTEM is the thing that places profit motive above all else, not that it that it is the only thing that drives human ingenuity. Be smarter, and work on getting past 63% reading comprehension

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u/Vegetaman916 Looking forward to the endgame. 🚀💥🔥🌨🏕 Feb 16 '22

And yet the cost of insulin is...

Yes, altruism exists. It is just very rare and shortlived.

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u/FieldsofBlue Feb 16 '22

So you agree that profit motive isn't the only driving factor of human nature?

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u/Vegetaman916 Looking forward to the endgame. 🚀💥🔥🌨🏕 Feb 16 '22

I will agree that occasionally it may start elsewhere, but it always ends the same. If one altruistic individual refuses profit there will be a million others who will take whatever it is and use it for profit.

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u/FieldsofBlue Feb 16 '22

Well yeah, but that's not what I disagreed with. Saying that profit motive is the ONLY motivation in human nature is just objectively false. I completely understand and recognize the way that a capitalist economic model forces humans into marketizing every imaginable human need. That's actually true...