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Would you work for free on a project that you knew could save the world?

Asked by Sorceren (674

) December 16th, 2009
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If you have gifts—like math or mechanics or engineering or chemistry, English, grant-writing, whatever—would you volunteer them free for a project that stood an excellent chance of, say, wiping out half the world’s need for oil or producing very nearly free energy?

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Of course. Why wouldn’t I? Why wouldn’t anyone?

syz (35943

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I’d be honored. I might ask for free coffee or a sandwich once every now and then though.

gemiwing (14718

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Yep. Of course.

randomness (1327

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If I was offered that, I would feel like I was the most important person on this planet. I mean, saving the world! Not only am I doing something back to the earth for all it has provided, but would also cut back costs (due to oil) by a huge margin? Why of course I’d do it for free! (Food and drink factors are of course, exempted from my previous sentence.)

belakyre (2125

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No! Only because a project that significant and of that magnitude would surely be worth gazillions of dollars in revenue generated by that development and I would like a piece of that action if my talents would further that goal.

Now if it was something like stopping a terrorist from detonating a nuke in my home town or steering a missile to stop a meteor from obliterating my world…*HECK YEAH!!!

Cruiser (40449

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@Cruiser, you’ve changed my mind. My price: A lifetime’s worth of cash!

By the way, I intend to spend in my life…and when I mean spend, I mean spend!

belakyre (2125

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If,I win the Nobel Peace Prize for it, can I accept that?

I want recognition, somehow, someway, even some money under the table, would be nice.

smashbox (1302

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@belakyre You work cheap! Let me negotiate your contract!!

Cruiser (40449

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@Cruiser Depends what you want to negotiate!

belakyre (2125

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My fee is 10% that alone would be a lifetime’s worth of cash in a deal that would wean the world from dependency on oil!! Trust me when I say you’d be set!!

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