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> We love to talk about how competition motivates innovation, but it also motivates economic rollercoasters.

> But we’ve created an America where an honest living means a shitty school and an existence no more stable than a contract job. Nobody thinks about what this does to the kids. All they see is innovation.

Instability is natural. Disease is natural. Starvation is natural. Death is natural. Chaos is natural.

Innovation is what gives us the degree of stability we do have. Innovation in health care, in manufacturing, in communication, in a thousand tiny things that you or I have never even contemplated.

If the complaint is that we are moving too fast to more efficient, more advanced, more productive existence, then it is a valid but welcome problem to have.




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