I don't mind having a lot of different hot sauces. What I mind is "financial innovation" like debt-backed securities, and "tech innovation" like tracking people as they browse the web.

and one mega corp owns all 27

That's assuming that those brands aren't just one or two actually different sauces from the same couple of suppliers

Innovating exciting new ways to replace ownership with rentals/subscriptions and giving you less while charging you more

Mhm. Ask all the scientists whose work has been suppressed by corporations claiming IP but not doing anything with it because it competes with their main product lines. Ask those whose work would be of wide public interest but is paywalled by the for-profit journals they’re required by their institutions to publish in.

The ‘capatalism breeds innovation’ thing is a massive lie. In reality, brilliant people drive innovation, and capitalism beats them to death then scavenges their corpses.

eta: This applies to the military version of this argument, too. No, the military doesn’t drive innovations and achievements; it hides them from the public so that society is constantly two or more decades behind what’s possible. Again, people are doing it, but we’re not allowed to benefit from many things until they have no real strategic value. It’s bonkers to think about. Even more bonkers to realise we’re paying them to do this to us.

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I’m ready for the show to start

To be fair, you could enjoy all 27 brands of hot sauce without teeth.

I think a lot about how venture capital spends billions on companies that send gifs over the Internet, and how that money could have been spent on, say, anything useful.

Is innovation fundamentally/inherently a good thing? Are things that drive innovation fundamentally/inherently good?

I'm starting to feel like 98% of what we call "innovation" is really just trial and error as capital owners try out methods of extracting the wealth of the working class. Like some dudes in suits said "lets make 5 new hot sauce flavors and make this profit graph go up", or "This year we'll see if big bags and platform shoes are more effective at increasing profits", or "this new drug will allow people to eat like shit and still live long enough to continue to consume".

The remaining 2% of real innovation are things that help people and fix damage caused by the other 98%.

"Innovation" is not necessarilly improvement and "New" is not necessarilly better, and I say this as somebody who has spent most of his career at or near the bleeding edge of Tech.

I even get the feeling (from myself and from comments I read sometimes) that techies who do or did bleeding edge stuff and with a few years behind their backs, like me (so, not the bright-eyeds naive young ones who haven't seen much yet and which the industry uses as fuel), are less prone to be technology early adopters than the average person exactly because we've seen a lot of brand-new innovative glittered turds sold on hype, not on genuinelly being a good thing.

Just be glad you didn't die from eating the the pink sauce.

Why would you bring craft hot sauce into this mess? They don't deserve that

Capitalism for things you want, Socialism for things you need

Business opportunities like dentures and anti acids are only the beginning!

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capitalism breeds innovation yeah for sure bro i love having 27 brands of hot sauce and no teeth