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> What if curing cancer needs education, applied intellect, and inspiration more than it needs "financing"?

unlocking liquidity of currently hard to value assets will remove distractions for a broader set of people to get education, apply their intellect, and be inspired including to cure. many people are not applying their intellect because they are distracted by their illiquidity, basically all of their life.

> plenty of financiers that have said "aha, we need to have [thing X], let's [throw some money at it]" without much useful results

misallocated capital is a symptom of current market inefficiencies and has nothing to do with the concept of people working in finance versus whatever you prefer



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