We tend to think about progress in terms of technological advancement, but an even bigger, gnarlier class of problems is those that require social innovation ⚛️🌐
The Soviets were able to build atomic bombs but not coordinate economic activity
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Hmm lately I’m less and less certain that the US did much better. To some extent it merely externalized the hard parts in time and space via foreign and trade policy and military power.
Then how do you explain that USSR did the same things you just accused USA of and still failed?


