It is one thing to be inspired to innovate, and another altogether to be permitted, or even encouraged, to turn that innovation into a vehicle for personal gain.
Mostly, human beings won’t do much of anything, unless there is incentive in it for themselves. People are just not all that altruistic.
Thomas Alva Edison may have been a highly prolific inventor, but without ever having any compensation for the efforts by reaping the rewards of the market, the genius would have dried up rather quickly.
Socialism isn’t about altruism, so that’s OK.