The problem then is that all of those, besides nececities aren't really good at encouraging any innovation.
Yes, inventing something like a heater so people don't freeze to death or a plow to make tending to a field easier could come out of necessity.
But the dangerous part is that it creates a risk of people just going "yeah, we are comfortable enough already" and the technological development just stopping. If you go back 40 years and 99% of the people would have said that they are perfectly fine living with a CRT TV and a landline phone. There would be no reason for doing any research into any further technology
I wouldn't like the library system because it requires you to treat things a certain way.
If we think of it from the perspective of a book (since we're talking about libraries here), if I borrow a book from a library, I have to treat it well and return it in a condition that somebody else can read it.
If I own a book, I can do whatever I want with it, I can burn it as firewood, I can cut out the words that I don't like from all of the pages, or I can just scribble all over it with a permanent marker, it's my book after all.
Does kiwifarms.cc even exist anymore? I remember hanging out there while the main site was under maintenance, but it seems to have gone offline since then
The problem then is that all of those, besides nececities aren't really good at encouraging any innovation.
Yes, inventing something like a heater so people don't freeze to death or a plow to make tending to a field easier could come out of necessity.
But the dangerous part is that it creates a risk of people just going "yeah, we are comfortable enough already" and the technological development just stopping. If you go back 40 years and 99% of the people would have said that they are perfectly fine living with a CRT TV and a landline phone. There would be no reason for doing any research into any further technology