I agree with you that almost no one wants free market capitalism, but for a different reason. A totally Free Market or Lazzie-Faire style of government oversight doesn’t correct market failures.

An example of a market failure: between 2022 and 2025, the top 3 US egg producers colluded to raise prices above market levels, and the government intervened–with a lawsuit that ended with a $3.3M settlement.

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Hahah! An unethical study to quantify the survival value of ethics! Isaac Newton would agree that experiments are a necessity!

An economst’s natural experiment, hehe! oh Adam Smith, when does self interest become greed?

Bioengineer some humans to not be greedy.

Some humans because you can opt out, or you can choose it for your designer baby. Then there is a control and an experimental group.

The mad scientist in me is dying to see whether behaviors with moral connotations (greed) confer an advantage for survival.

Time travel to Earth’s past would be cool to study history. But how to not accidentally ruin our timeline?

I think the real progress is to be made in space. Send a probe to a solar system 50 LY away but back in time to arrive the same day you sent it. It can travel really slow too, because time isn’t a concern.

If there is a habitable planet, send settlers there at the earliest time in history possible. Settlers can be robots that just build infrastructure and plant stuff for 10k years. Then go yourself.