Welcome to the revolution. Our elites have exposed their hand. They have nothing to offer. They can destroy but they cannot build. They can repress but they cannot lead. They can steal but they cannot share. They can talk but they cannot speak. They are as dead and useless to us as the water-soaked books, tents, sleeping bags, suitcases, food boxes and clothes that were tossed by sanitation workers Tuesday morning into garbage trucks in New York City. They have no ideas, no plans and no vision for the future
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I wonder, rather than the elites no longer innovating or contributing, is that quote more a reflection of the author’s own sense of inadequacy and despondency?
Innovation has by no means stopped. To give just a few recent examples without even trying:
The Boeing 787 (finally)
The iPhone (passé now but what an amazing device)
Skype
While that author is bemoaning soggy sleeping bags and the unfairness of it all, others are following their dreams and changing the world.[/quote]
Sure, there is always innovation going on. You don’t need “elites”, competition, corporations or capitalism for that. Humans have an innate drive towards mastery.
Actually studies show that large monetary incentives actually stifle innovation.
Innovation rarely comes from CEOs these days or the finiancial parasites making billions. Truth of the matter is, only a tiny tiny fraction people come up with a truely socially beneficial technology and they are STILL standing on other peoples knowledge and work. All innovation rests on the work of others. How many thinker’s work over the millenia have gone into the iphone and the new boeing. Chemical, electrical, aeronautical, ect..
