And cattle is fed with corn. Which is unnatural for them and they develop ulcers. Antibiotics prevent deadly infections from the ulcers and increase the life span of the cattle.
I do not see where rewards are socialized. See how much Google, Facebook and Apple pay for taxes in relation to their revenue.
The problem today is not socializing the risk of innovations but socializing the risk of investments.
The EZB is currently pumping more than 1.000.000.000.000 Euros into the market for essentially failed risk assessments of high volume lenders. Which in turn sank money into projects of people who are everything but innovative, like building another much needed shopping mall.
You say 'road to communism' but do you see North Korea socializing rewards?
Beside the headline that invokes ideological impulses in some readers Mazzucato makes some considerable points.
Over the years I came to the conclusion that mortality may be the only thing that ensures the necessary flexibility for changes and advancements in society by breaking up power structures.
Otherwise the flaws which are genetically and socially woven into our existence would rise with the elites into structures that would be optimized over centuries to quell all possible changes.
A look at the history of long standing lines of sovereignity shows us what to expect.
Abuses and vices, capital and resource concentrations that would squeeze the life blood out of the masses.
Ask yourself if you would like to be a de facto slave forever. That would likely be your place if you are granted postponement of mortality as a normal worker.
For all the hopes for the better in a state without mortality, even now we have a lot of advancements that barely benefit the masses.
Even within our mortal societies we have legal constructs like laws of succession, increasing abolition of inheritance taxes, benefits of funds and foundations that have non-mortality like effects on society as a whole. Namely concentration of capital.
The results can be seen in the cities of the western world-quality of products, average living spaces, medical treatment efforts are all on decline.
Despite all productivity advancements we have generally rising prices.
So in short, because of our nature we maybe need mortality to exist as advancing societies.