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by winternett
1568 days ago
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Covid mitigation doesn't have a market? Improving social media without taxing content creators (and crediting and paying creators fairly) doesn't have a market? Making music streaming fair to artists doesn't have a market? Improving the quality of consumer goods on a wide-scale-basis doesn't have a market? Not creating tons of toxic landfills filled with discarded lithium batteries from electric cars doesn't have a market? Not wasting tons of resources, money, and not polluting the environment for space tourism in favor of improving education and living conditions of third world countries... Doesn't have a market? These aren't just "individual personal" concerns. We don't need gradual global transformation in my opinion. We need more drastic and game-changing innovation towards better goals. |
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COVID mitigation is the closest, and...we've seen lots of innovation there, frankly. The damn disease has only existed for just over two years, and we've seen a variety of vaccines and at least a few different effective treatments appear.
Basically every other innovation you name is all about challenging powerful incumbents to improve things for ordinary people and/or the planet...and no, there's no "market" for that. Markets are terrible for that. The powerful incumbents are great at bending markets to protect the status quo, and ordinary people and the planet don't have much sway over them.
That's why we have things like regulation, antitrust laws, and government-funded science. What we need is to give them better teeth.