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Was America's Economic Prosperity Just a Historical Accident? (nymag.com)
11 points by minikites on July 22, 2013 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment



I dislike the modern neo-positivist tendency to call everything an "accident." To place everything in a single set obliterates that set's meaning. If everything is an accident then nothing is.

To me the money quote though is that we'd need an innovation wave about eight times as powerful as the last one to continue the trend.

Get cracking!




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