On Jul 7, 4:54 pm, ehandb...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
>
> The original poster posts some airy-fairy message that there
> is no real innovation in the USA/world,
And he is not alone in this thinking... Here's how Paul Krugman put
it back in 1996:
[Quote]
....think about how a typical middle-class family lives today compared
with 40 years ago -- and compare those changes with the progress that
took place over the previous 40 years.
I happen to be an expert on some of those changes, because I live in a
house with a late-50s vintage kitchen, never remodelled. The nonself-
defrosting refrigerator, and the gas range with its open pilot lights
are pretty depressing (anyone know a good contractor?) -- but when all
is said and done it is still a pretty functional kitchen. The 1957
owners didn't have a microwave, ... but basically they lived pretty
much the way we do. Now turn the clock back another 39 years, to 1918
-- and you are in a world in which a horse-drawn wagon delivered
blocks of ice to your icebox, a world not only without TV but without
mass media of any kind (regularly scheduled radio entertainment began
only in 1920). And of course back in 1918 nearly half of Americans
still lived on farms, most without electricity and many without
running water. By any reasonable standard, the change in how America
lived between 1918 and 1957 was immensely greater than the change
between 1957 and the present.
[End of quote]
http://www.pkarchive.org/theory/WondersofTechnologyNotSoWonderous.html
> then sits back while we blindly write replies to entertain him.
And ourselves, of course... :)
> The fact is that there has never been a better time to be an
> entrepreneur,
Any evidence to back up this statement? Consider in your calculations
that the first thing a budding entrepreneur loses when going out on
his/her own is health coverage provided by his/her present employer.
So you can say that the best time to be an entrepreneur was before
employer-provided health insurance (and, conversely, there will be a
good time again if the U.S. ever gets its act together on universal
healthcare). Looking at it from another angle, survival rates for new
businesses remain stable over the long haul, so at a first glance, no
one time appears to be better than another...
> the op****tunities that present themselves to us on a daily
> basis is staggering. You only have to look at the energy
> sector to understand this.
Spoken like a true marketer (i.e., with no regard to cost or even
feasibility)... :)
Cheers,
NC
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