The Courage to Disrupt
American Greatness,
by
George Painter
&
Ed Powell
Original Article
Posted By: ladydawgfan,
4/6/2020 4:38:52 AM
When we emerge from the coronavirus pandemic, America must seize this historic opportunity to transform its economy and the world through disruptive innovation.
Throughout history, pandemics have spawned periods of significant human advancement. The Black Plague ravaged the populations of Europe and Asia in just under five years, laying the groundwork for the Renaissance and unrivaled creativity. After the Spanish Influenza pandemic, America experienced a 25 percent increase in women’s workforce participation.
More recently, the financial crisis of 2008—an economic pandemic—ushered in cryptocurrencies, blockchain, and the gig economy—launching over 30 “unicorns” like Uber, Grubhub, and Airbnb.
Why do such crises trigger mass creativity?
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Bur Oak 4/6/2020 7:53:37 AM (No. 370176)
Disruption doesn't automatically lead to desirable innovation. Unfortunately the country has a huge bureaucracy that will use the disruption to advance themselves at the expense of the citizens.
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YES YES. This we need. Above all, dump RED CHINA as a supplier, manufacturer, partner.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
jacksin5 4/6/2020 8:31:45 AM (No. 370206)
Was watching a documentary of WWII yesterday, which credited a great part of the Allies victory on the Manufacturing Might of the U.S. The post-war boom and our advancement to Superpower status once again is a direct result of our ability to manufacture consumer goods for our populace as well as global exports.
I could spend hours explaining how we transformed to a Service Economy, essentially selling cheap, imported goods to each other, with salaries at a retail business scale, but the bottom line is, to make America strong again, we need to revive our manufacturing sector.
This will keep Americans employed on a one breadwinner scale, and once again balance our import/export balance.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 4/6/2020 9:13:21 AM (No. 370252)
I think I saw the same WWII documentary that #3 saw. I was frustrated at the way they seemed to pat Nazis on the back for their scientific achievements (V2 and space race) and then implied that USA begged von Braun, et al., to switch sides. Could it have been that way? All that is important to me now is to stop China's production of my medical products. I read in a 'virus article' that the Chinese use some minerals, etc., that can only be found in China. I just doubt that is a true fact
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Strike3 4/6/2020 9:19:21 AM (No. 370260)
The virus has exposed big holes in our security systems. The need for the wall on the southern border was identified by Donald Trump and his followers three years ago but unfortunately the democrats have political games to play. New Yorkers have infected much of the East Coast. The time to shut down our major international airports should have been immediately. We are short on medical supplies and equipment due to the overall "just in time" inventory practices that aid in cash flow but do not allow for disruptions and emergencies. We have learned much from history. Hitler easily took over Germany and half of Europe by first disarming those who opposed him. America will never make the mistaking of giving up arms voluntarily no matter how loudly the liberals may scream. The Revolutionary War would have been lost without an armed citizenry. We would not have reached the Moon if the Russians had not been feverishly trying to beat us there and they did beat us into space by launching Sputnik. Way back, even Troy learned the hard way that you don't drag big wooden horses built by the Greeks into your city without checking inside first. Knowledge and progress is always preceeded by pain.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
bighambone 4/6/2020 10:07:12 AM (No. 370301)
What this pandemic clearly shows is that even though most of the USA operates with a very high level of everyday modern healthcare and hygiene, that it does not matter in the era of globalization and open borders, whereby foreign individuals, entities, and even foreign governments can easily insidiously import deadly viruses or biowarfare agents into US society on a large scale for which there is no immediate scientific cure.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Ida Lou Pino 4/6/2020 10:16:31 AM (No. 370315)
Don't worry at all, folks - - the Trump gummint will solve ALL problems.
Economic "stimulus" - - bailouts - - stock purchases - - free "loans" - - healthcare control - - crowd control - - "emergency' declarations - - czars - - panels. Yes - - everything a big gummint socialist could desire. Gummint EVERYWHERE. And - - when the demonrats take over - - big gummint will get even bigger!
And don't believe the people who come on this forum and write that Trump has caved - - has sold us all out. We're all socialists now - - so do not resist!
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Adam 4/6/2020 10:42:58 AM (No. 370351)
"America experienced a 25 percent increase in women’s workforce participation." Just exactly how was that a good thing?
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
BigGeorgeTX 4/6/2020 11:02:44 AM (No. 370380)
So many Leftist totems destroyed by a single virus,
Open borders
Socialized medicine
Concentration of populations in big cities.
The push for mass transportation
Elimination of plastics
2nd amendment unnecessary
The government will save you
etc...
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
DCGIRL 4/6/2020 12:09:35 PM (No. 370477)
What this tells me is that someone or many have SCREWED up. There is and was no crisis. Because of the incompetence of our Dr. Fauci, Dr. Brix, CDC and WHO many lives in the U.S. and around the world have been destroyed. Each model was extremely wrong, either by mistake, ignorance or it was done on purpose. Someone needs to pay. We are further in debt....$2T, some small business are destroy, people have committed suicide, etc. I'm mad as hell.
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#4, I have friends in the magnetically biz, and I'm afraid there's some truth that China had much if the world's supply of certain minerals-- whether that can possibly mitigated, I'm not sure:
https://www.wired.com/story/rare-earths-next-pawn-us-china-trade-war/
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
bobmadison 4/6/2020 3:44:46 PM (No. 370738)
Why do we have to have a crisis to bring out the best in the American people? Just askin'.
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