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
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- Overfinancialization of our economy (hedge funders make more money than inventors and engineers) - We've found all the good ideas already - Manufacturing has left the United States What else????
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Replying to @Molson_Hart
-lack of individual agency -limited prominent creative communities (SV & elite universities) -income effect> substitution effect ... contributing preference to leisure imo most reasons can be grouped into 1. lack of social motivation 2. misaligned financial incentives
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Replying to @JakeDinero
Agree with you here. What causes the lack of agency? Do you really think we have fewer creative communities? not sure about that one.
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you hit it on the nail with social stigma surrounding ambition... perhaps weaker willed generations are more likely deterred from being a lone wolf & taking asymmetric risks. larger corporate structures also stifle individual innovation
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Replying to @JakeDinero @Molson_Hart
and maybe not fewer, but definitely not as robust. Growth in the past 20 years is synonymous w tech and finance. Most incentives align so that our top intellectual talent now sells out to wall st and consulting (not-particularly innovative industries)
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Yes and that’s really unfortunate. Too much brainpower chasing after optimization and what a stock price@is going to do.
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