What problem are we trying to solve? Curing cancer? AI? Compiler research?
Most humans are not working on the important stuff. If we could increase that by even a few percentage points, humanity would benefit.
Cheaper clean energy. Cures for diseases. Social stability.
In some cases, we aren't talking about 1000 people. It could be 1000 cities or 1000 countries or 1000 bills of rights.
I think you’re completely missing my point. 7 billion people on the planet. Most of are not working on research, ..., the important stuff.