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And how do you measure innovation in poor families? Does jerry-rigging your car to work using duct tape and aluminum cans count?

• tsimionescu 6y ago
  In the discussion here, I am assuming innovation refers specifically to innovative products and business ideas, not stuff that remains confined to your close family.
  • umvi 6y ago
    Well yeah, you probably aren't going to get a lot of business innovation from the poor, but because they are resource constrained, you'll see innovation in other forms - such as how they adapt to broken cars, appliances, shortage of food, clothing, etc. The rich have no need to come up with novel ways to mend shoes - they just buy a new pair.
    • tsimionescu 6y ago
      Well, this whole thread started from your claim here: > From what I understand EU has way better social safety nets, yet much smaller entrepreneurship rates compared to USA. > Counter-intuitively, limitations drive innovations. It seemed like you were claiming that people with fewer resources may counter-intuitively do more innovative businesses, so providing people with UBI or similar resources could reduce innovation in entrepreneurship. The inventiveness you need to thrive as a poor person is very different from that, and I don't think losing that kind of inventiveness would be a real loss in our world.