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Why is the possibility of a wheel being reinvented a desirable thing?
by chottocharaii 8y ago
Why is the possibility of a wheel being reinvented a desirable thing?
- adrianN 8y agoBecause competition is good?
- genericone 8y agoThe hundreds if not thousands of ad supported calculator and flashlight apps on play store beg to differ.
- EchoAce 8y agoGood for the consumer.
- TeMPOraL 8y agoReasonable amount of competition is good.
- claudiawerner 8y agoCompetition that spurs innovation is good, more like, but I am skeptical of the claim that competition is necessary to prompt innovation, and whether the costs of such a model (leading to massive waste of society's productive capacity) are worth the purported benefits. For instance, a good deal of mathematics and science was not done on the principle of competition, but search for improvement. The real question is whether the development in goods and services can be or could have used similar principles, which is not only more efficient but seems condusive to better mental well-being; I'd rather desire to improve than to slight (and possibly sabotage) someone who must be my opponent.
- giornogiovanna 8y agoIs a browser really a "wheel"? There are so many choices to make, so many lines drawn in the sand. And besides, you really don't want the marketing and tracking giant Google to make all the decisions regarding the software that delivers so much content to billions of users' screens, do you? They've been okay so far, but there's a huge conflict of interest here.