What is Wealth? What is Poverty?

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Gary

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From A Buick 6

May 27, 2015 - 04:26pm PT

I do wonder, however, when the commandment not to covet became a mere suggestion that could be ignored.

I do wonder when Matthew 19:21 was forgotten.

“We live in cheap and twisted times. Our leaders are low-rent Fascists and our laws are a tangle of mockeries. Recent polls indicate that the only people who feel optimistic about the future are first-year law students who expect to get rich by haggling over the ruins.” -- Hunter S.Thompson

MikeL

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Seattle, WA

May 27, 2015 - 05:55pm PT

ksolem:

Theories don’t grow old. They just get replaced. If you have a better theory to replace concerning increasing returns to adoption, then tell me about them.

What Apple (Jobs, really) learned from near failure and getting the company’s head handed to senior leadership more than once—often by a skinny kid from Redmond—is exactly what they executed almost flawlessly with the iPod, the iPhone. Apple’s computers are still an astounding laggard when considering installed base (which is the thing to consider in increasing returns to adoption markets).

There’s more of a story about Matsushita vs. Phillips than space provides.

How to provide opportunity for any group is a social problem at the end of the day, not a technical one. Get people aligned and working with each other, and technical solutions will show up. The world may be a place of scarce resources, but the most important resources in societies are unlimited: creativity, entrepreneurship, engagement, innovation. All worldly problems will fall to those.

Don’t say “no.” Say “yes.” Say yes to everything. Say yes to the flowers opening up in the morning. Say yes to people. Say yes to everything you see. Get aligned.

Be well.