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by csallen 358 days ago
You can believe in disruption and innovation and a stronger social safety net at the same time. These aren't opposing ideas. In fact, they're complementary ideas, because countries with competitive and innovative markets have a higher GDP and thus more funds to support a stronger social safety net. The opposite is also true -- countries that are low in productivity and innovation have lower means to lift their own people out of poverty.

We have a goose that lays golden eggs. We should be using the gold to do good things instead of trying to kill the goose.

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Sure you can have both. But we don't.
Which is why it perplexes me that so many people are focused on trying to tear down the good thing we have, instead of fixing the broken thing.