Distraction innovtion - Silicon Valley financing mirrors Hollywood in that the popularity of the product and the glamour factor drive the where the dollars land.
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Environmentalism fails because it refuses to accept the socialist dichotomy inherit in the argument. The core problem of environmentalism is the disparity of wealth. As long as this disparity exists, then wealth as expressed by consumption will always be the goal. The less the disparity of wealth the less conspicous consumption there is.
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Current innvoation is really focused on distribution channels. But as the 'rate of investment' is getting higher the 'return of invtment' is gettnig smaller. Used to be a $1000 worth of investment brought returns in the millions, now it's the opposite when you take into account all the investments put into websites and distributions channels that will fail
