But that's not what you've asked (assuming you created this poll). Your comment creates a false dichotomy between genuine-people-motive vs. greedy-profit-motive, whereas the original question simply involved integrity vs. certification. So the hypothetical situation isn't what would happen if we started "thinking of what really matters more than the profit motive", it's what would happen if everyone eschewed education for honesty.
I'm saying that it's silly to choose between a society of amoral intellectuals and a society of well-meaning idiots, even hypothetically. Both would fail.
Honest and potential, or studied and certified?
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But that's not what you've asked (assuming you created this poll). Your comment creates a false dichotomy between genuine-people-motive vs. greedy-profit-motive, whereas the original question simply involved integrity vs. certification. So the hypothetical situation isn't what would happen if we started "thinking of what really matters more than the profit motive", it's what would happen if everyone eschewed education for honesty.
I'm saying that it's silly to choose between a society of amoral intellectuals and a society of well-meaning idiots, even hypothetically. Both would fail.