"Infrequent and small gains over the status quo will not even sustain things as they are. We cannot tax our way to utopia, we cannot political theater our way to a better world. A great future will not be discovered in a spreadsheet or a shallow expected value calculation. The end of history is not coming to save us. "
My favorite bit here: we can't increment our way to the future by playing small :)
"Infrequent and small gains over the status quo will not even sustain things as they are. We cannot tax our way to utopia, we cannot political theater our way to a better world. A great future will not be discovered in a spreadsheet or a shallow expected value calculation. The end of history is not coming to save us. "
My favorite bit here: we can't increment our way to the future by playing small :)
Nice piece!
Manus, Eros, Techne.
May human imagination light the stars.