Let me mention a few Fiat’s advances in medicine,
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And, of course, wars also played a role,
“The battlefields of the 20th century stimulated the progress of surgery and taught the surgeon innumerable lessons, which were subsequently applied in civilian practice.”
I have nothing against money making. But I want alternatives to the Fiat system that makes employees into co-owners so they can benefit from any and all transactions. The measure is their contributions and not by a benevolent boss or the capital they bring to the table.
Just A Few
“In 1901 in the United Kingdom, for instance, the life expectancy at birth … was 48 years for males and 51.6 years for females … in the 1980s the life expectancy had reached 71.4 years for males and 77.2 years for females. By the 21st century … attention was focused on morbidity rather than mortality… ”
Enciclopedia Britannica, Online
Also from Britannica,
“The rapid progress of medicine in this era was reinforced by enormous improvements in communication between scientists throughout the world.”
And, yes, this was accerelated by money, but all the money in the world would have just sat there and not have done anything if these scientist were, for example,
- Enslaved
- Not excited at the possibility of discovery
- Not getting credit.
So, again, Fiat has balanced some things well for the sake of making money which of course, this is is not the only or best way to do it.
The one thing to note is that,
“The rapid progress of medicine in this era was reinforced by enormous improvements in communication between scientists throughout the world.”
One thing to note here is that the drive to make money sometimes results in doing the right thing. In this case it worked only because increased communication was not in direct competition with capital and was not taking money out of the Fiat bosses’s pockets.
