Raw LLM Responses

>there’s no great humanitarian plan in play here What are you on about my guy? Not only did I not say that there was, there's literally no central "plan" to much of anything at all. My first paragraph wasn't absurdly claiming that every civilization was somehow collaboratively working towards some utopian goal, simply that a focus on arts and individual economic prosperity was almost always the natural result of innovative efforts and progression. That's literally what golden ages and renaissance periods are... ​ >There were likely never any altruistic/utopian aspirations behind most innovations. It was simply “this’ll probably make me (more) money in the future”. Anything else is revisionist history. While your argument is fair, a dramatic swing pointing to the other extreme is no where near an accurate reflection of reality either... In fact, I would argue that *most* inventors objectively aren't/weren't just *purely* selfish assholes looking to make a buck. It's an incredibly inefficient way of attaining wealth. Most usually either stumbled upon innovations by accident or had originally set out to solve a specific problem. Sure, everyone naturally does things that benefit them, but framing history from a purely capitalistic lens is just incredibly naïve and fundamentally incorrect.