In the soviet union, government officials enjoyed a substantially higher standard of living than the commoners. Those that were connected to the government, i.e. inventors and scientists, enjoyed the benefits of that association. There was therefore an incentive to be a scientist.
My statement applied one of the central assumptions of a resource based economy operating in a post scarcity world.
The soviet union was the exact opposite of a post scarcity civilization, hence my statement doesn't apply there.
In the post scarcity RBE, the ditch digger and the person who discover the cure to cancer get the same access to resources and luxuries. This is the image they portrayed in the Zeitgeist films (based on the RBE).
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