It is strange how this world works. The almighty dollar rules the world basically. I was reading the other day about how mass collaboration is a great thing and a great way to solve many problems. Using people from all over the world to contribute to a project is much better than a few people in a research and development department. Wikpedia is a great example of that, probably the biggest on line encyclopaedia where people from all over submit knowledge to an ever growing source.

One department that is also using this open source concept is the pharmaceutical business and the research of new drugs to combat the many illnesses that we face. One thing that stuck out in my mind was a statement that made reference to companies not interested in drugs that might cure say, malaria, which affects many people in Africa but these people are mostly poor and can’t afford to buy the drugs. Wow!

We do not do things that will help millions of people because it is not economically sound. Is that what we are here on this planet to do? Are we put here to have a great business plan or to start wars. Some where I think we have lost the goal. We are suppose to have higher intelligence meanwhile we are no different than all the animals. I guess it is the survival of the fittest. I wonder at the end when we are facing the final music if it matters how much money we have made or if we have invented a drug to fix a minor skin blemish. Not all of this is bad as it puts many people to work but at the end of the day make sure we can reflect on how many people we have help as opposed to how much money we have made.

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