> Hell, it might even limit the complexity of projects our society is capable of delivering - we might be less able to successfully deliver projects that take l

> Hell, it might even limit the complexity of projects our society is capable of delivering - we might be less able to successfully deliver projects that take longer than a year or two. I guess that's somewhat true. But I feel that for companies handling more complex topics (not just the new 'AI deep learning on big data with hadoop on rails in the cloud' startup), experts are hired with the understanding that both the work is interesting and it would be a long-term project with long-term benefits. This is all, of course, without counting academia as possibly the ultimate example of long-term hiring with high-risk, high-reward returns.