You can't stop innovation across the planet, you will lose control over time as adversaries continue to innovate and subsume antiquated control structures.
Yet it’s a mistake companies and societies repeatedly make, because human brains are wired for zero sum games and paranoia. When you have it, the instinct is to clutch and guard and hoard not grow and expand.
When a company or a society is threatened the usual response is to double down on things that accelerate decline like killing novelty and innovation.
These things worked when we were small primates fighting over limited food sources on the savannah. Our brain stems don’t know what millennium they are in and still run those programs.
Which is exactly what our system encourages. You don’t need to think beyond the next quarter / election cycle. You’re only in it to extract as much wealth in the short-term as possible and secure your chair before the music stops playing.
aeonik|4 months ago
You can't stop innovation across the planet, you will lose control over time as adversaries continue to innovate and subsume antiquated control structures.
Larrikin|4 months ago
api|4 months ago
When a company or a society is threatened the usual response is to double down on things that accelerate decline like killing novelty and innovation.
These things worked when we were small primates fighting over limited food sources on the savannah. Our brain stems don’t know what millennium they are in and still run those programs.
teeray|4 months ago
Which is exactly what our system encourages. You don’t need to think beyond the next quarter / election cycle. You’re only in it to extract as much wealth in the short-term as possible and secure your chair before the music stops playing.
ortusdux|4 months ago
rthrfrd|4 months ago