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> What does it say about progress that the same laws that protect human rights also stifle innovation? Innovative methods to destroy human life are "stifled" b
by boothby 4mo ago
> What does it say about progress that the same laws that protect human rights also stifle innovation?
Innovative methods to destroy human life are "stifled" by measures intended to preserve human life. What to you mean by "progress" -- the betterment of the human condition, or the enrichment of the few and powerful?
- philipallstar 4mo agoIf someone gets rich because they provide an affordable useful service to millions then that is definitely progress. They should get rich.
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- satvikpendem 4mo agoAnd that is the difference in philosophy between the European and American mindset, and why America actually innovates.
- Gud 4mo agoEurope innovates too.
- lwhi 4mo agoThat's why American will become a full dystopia before Europe.
- philipallstar 4mo agoEurope isn't a dystopia because it could import American innovation. There's a reason Germany car manufacturers were never going to electrify by themselves.
- lwhi 4mo agoI genuinely think there's a level of unrealised density in this conversation.
- disqard 4mo agoThis sounds like PG's essay on the front page (today or yesterday).
- philipallstar 4mo agoIt's just a very obvious point, evidenced by where most companies end up being created. Europe's main innovation failure is a failure to recognise the value in taking a risk, and instead to reward people who don't from the people who do. But that still makes it a good place to do bread and better work - old school fabrication of cheap, old-process chips is a good example.