Because their strong opinions aren't enabling technological innovations, they're enabling commercialization and regulatory capture so they can make money.
Oh my. And you think the prior attitudes were honest on their face, and not about undermining the prior incumbents so they could eat their lunch - to get the new folks here?
The prior incumbents were the way they were because they were incumbents. all incumbents end up doing these things. Because they work.
At least until someone figures out the chink in the armor, and it stops working.
>Liberalism was the greatest innovation we ever came up with as a species
Pottery, agriculture, control over the electromagnetic field, basket weaving, LANGUAGE, formalized society, written language, MATH, metalworking etc
and you posit UNREGULATED MARKETS as the greatest innovation?
NONE of the above monumental achievements of humanity are even remotely related to people being able to do business with slightly less regulation and slightly fewer taxes. Nearly all human innovation has occurred when being murdered by your king for petty reasons was the norm.
Integrated circuits as a commodity mostly exists because the US air force wanted it to. None of that is about liberalism.
The Navy trained up hundreds of thousands of people essentially to the level of electrical engineers, basic information sciences, and computers and computation and electric fields for WW2, to improve radar and targeting, including building and deploying a networked computer system for automated fleet defense and intercept tasking in the fifties, and then these people are mostly just let go, to spread their paid for knowledge to anyone in the commercial space, no non-competes. Wouldn't you know it, training up a bulk of people in a brand new but important field, with minimal cost to them, and then just freely giving that away reaped insane rewards for the next 50 years!
I don't agree at all that Liberalism was the greatest innovation. Neo-liberalism is quite the opposite actually. VCs are part of a rigged system of global capital. They get paid to be part of that system and continue its existence. It has nothing to do with innovation other than occasional random bets that pay off.
I'm not sure why you're getting voted down. The HN guidelines clearly state downvotes are not to be used to express disagreement. Your point was politely and concisely made, and stuck to the topic.
candiddevmike|1 year ago
lazide|1 year ago
The prior incumbents were the way they were because they were incumbents. all incumbents end up doing these things. Because they work.
At least until someone figures out the chink in the armor, and it stops working.
Welcome to the new set.
Die young a hero, or live to be a villain.
mrguyorama|1 year ago
Pottery, agriculture, control over the electromagnetic field, basket weaving, LANGUAGE, formalized society, written language, MATH, metalworking etc
and you posit UNREGULATED MARKETS as the greatest innovation?
NONE of the above monumental achievements of humanity are even remotely related to people being able to do business with slightly less regulation and slightly fewer taxes. Nearly all human innovation has occurred when being murdered by your king for petty reasons was the norm.
Integrated circuits as a commodity mostly exists because the US air force wanted it to. None of that is about liberalism.
The Navy trained up hundreds of thousands of people essentially to the level of electrical engineers, basic information sciences, and computers and computation and electric fields for WW2, to improve radar and targeting, including building and deploying a networked computer system for automated fleet defense and intercept tasking in the fifties, and then these people are mostly just let go, to spread their paid for knowledge to anyone in the commercial space, no non-competes. Wouldn't you know it, training up a bulk of people in a brand new but important field, with minimal cost to them, and then just freely giving that away reaped insane rewards for the next 50 years!
bbqfog|1 year ago
loufe|1 year ago
Do better, voters.