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Both of what you said can be true at the same time (not mutually exclusive of each other) while OP’s assertions may still be true for certain individuals if I’m thinking logically.

We are talking about what motivates humans as human behavior, which tends to be varied, nuanced, and hard to reduce to mutually exclusive categories like being only profit driven or only driven by intellectual curiosity.

I think you can be both motivated by money and intellectual curiosity. If you are an engineer turned founder, you can be both?

Someone correct me if I’m wrong here.




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