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user-inactivated  ·  2534 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: America has become so anti-innovation – it's economic suicide

the economy that produced Juicero is the same one that’s creating opioid addicts in Ohio, maiming auto workers in Alabama, and evicting families in Los Angeles.

And the one where I can get a 435 horsepower sports car that's a low emissions vehicle and gets 25 mpg for 30k. One where I have access to the wealth of human knowledge from my pocket without wires. One where I can watch, for free, a live video of a rocket coming back from space and landing on a moving barge to be recycled. One where... etc. etc. etc.





DJWalnut  ·  2527 days ago  ·  link  ·  

"maiming auto workers in Alabama"

Did I miss something? I know they're not union, but I havn't heard anything about safety mishaps

user-inactivated  ·  2527 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I didn't even look into it. It's just in the article somewhere. To even imply that manufacturing accidents are a severe problem right now that would in some way discredit this economy is silly. And that's for two reasons, first being that innovation has literally automated most people out of manufacturing jobs, and second being that work place accidents are way down in manufacturing in general in the US.