Molson Hart

We should crowdsource a list of all the potential reasons the United States has become less innovative. I'll start: - Weaker patent protection - No existential threat to incentivize innovation (USSR) - Falling testosterone - Social media changing incentives

Can I question the underlying premise? How do we know we are less innovative now?

Absolutely. We don't, but it kind of seems that way? Have you seen this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Stagnation …

1) Change always seems slower when in it, faster in retrospect. 2) I don't buy his premise - no more arable land wat? - how does he explain all the growing KPIs of innovation like startup counts? His points seem cherry-picked. (Above is based on the wiki summary so....)

In the absence of real data on innovation, I'm predisposed to conclude the opposite. Many people incentivized to sell us this narrative. (Same as it's the civil engineer association who started the "crumbling infrastructure" BS)