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Is not necessity the mother of invention?

• Libcat99 3y ago
  At some point you also need resources. A lot of the invention necessity + nothing can lead to already exists. You can "invent" a lever or pulley out of random objects that you already have. It may make your task easier, but it won't be world changing. Necessity (read, pending starvation) may lead to a desperate search for Other People's Money to bring a concept to fruition, but it's not quite the same thing.
• pixl97 3y ago
  Then why are a huge portion of people that are attributed with inventing stuff from what would be middle to upper middle class of their times?
• AlexandrB 3y ago
  It's also the mother of war.