In the United States we pride ourselves in innovation, we think of ourselves and the entrepreneurs, inventors, and innovators of the world. Americans are always dreaming up new ideas and concepts, it’s practically an American Tradition. In fact, we cannot understand why other nation’s populations cannot or will not innovate, and perhaps, some of us feel superior due to this observation. Yet, before we get too ego-centric over the whole thing or break our arms patting ourselves on the back, we need to step back and consider how often we crush innovation.
Not long ago, our Young President stated; “What We Want is More Innovation in America!” And the crowd roared back with applause. That must have been a fun thing to say in front of 1350 innovators, industry giants, scientists, inventors, entrepreneurs, and research graduate students. Indeed, whoever is writing those lines for the teleprompter sure knows how to work a crowd. Unfortunately, it’s only political rhetoric really, and no, I am not a cynic, I am an innovator in my own right, a damn good one I might add [opinion of course].
Still, what I find is that we go out of our way to tell everyone we want innovation, but then we crush it at every turn. We use regulations, rules, taxes, laws, and codes in our government to stifle it. Our industries use lobbying, underhanded tactics, and call in regulatory bodies to stop it. Of course, we call it “disruptive technology” and then all of a sudden a particular innovation = evil for some reason. It’s such nonsense, it’s such a fraud, and it really is all I can help to stop myself from laughing when I hear some politician get up behind a podium and say something like that.
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Author: Lance Winslow
