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by lex-lightning
853 days ago
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Are you better at inventing than the worker is? Are your subsequent inventions better than the art they create? Do we really need double the widgets? I mean, the top post on this site yesterday was a self-balancing cube someone invented. This is precisely the community that should understand that inventions for inventions’ sake aren’t necessarily improving anything. |
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It would seem so, since I made one and they didn't.
> Are your subsequent inventions better than the art they create?
Not sure what art has to do with it. If they want to make art they can get a job making art instead of turning the crank.
> Do we really need double the widgets?
The market will decide that. If we don't then no one would buy them and it would no longer make sense to produce so many.
> I mean, the top post on this site yesterday was a self-balancing cube someone invented. This is precisely the community that should understand that inventions for inventions’ sake aren’t necessarily improving anything.
Interesting you should bring that up. That cube improved our understanding of self balancing machines and how to build them. That understanding can lead to better self balancing things, like maybe walkers for the disabled. You never know what it might lead to until you make it. Even machines that "have no purpose" have a purpose, of showing us what does not work or what does not make sense.