Comment applicability of Nobel Prizes in the modern world (Score 0, Troll) 159
Although all of the Nobel Prize laureates have accomplished tremendous technical achievements, I have to question the relevance and importance to the world today.
Both the medecine and the chemistry prizes were awarded for proprietary research done in the interests of multinational pharmaceutical corporations. Although some of it is already being used in treatments, they are not affordable to the vast majority of the people in the world, and even to many of the people whose national research labs have put so much into the corporate pockets.
As for the economics award, the world has no use for a science dedicated to depriving people of freedom and controlling them.
The only awards that I can inequivocably agree with are the literature and peace awards. The United Nations has done a lot of good work, and it is a shame that the American government is blind to the advantages of supporting it completely.
What the world really needs are awards that recognize the value of freedom. The contribution that a person makes is much less valuable when the information is locked up so that people can not excercise their fundamental freedoms to use it.
Both the medecine and the chemistry prizes were awarded for proprietary research done in the interests of multinational pharmaceutical corporations. Although some of it is already being used in treatments, they are not affordable to the vast majority of the people in the world, and even to many of the people whose national research labs have put so much into the corporate pockets.
As for the economics award, the world has no use for a science dedicated to depriving people of freedom and controlling them.
The only awards that I can inequivocably agree with are the literature and peace awards. The United Nations has done a lot of good work, and it is a shame that the American government is blind to the advantages of supporting it completely.
What the world really needs are awards that recognize the value of freedom. The contribution that a person makes is much less valuable when the information is locked up so that people can not excercise their fundamental freedoms to use it.
