“yet another example of how profoundly anti-innovation America has become”

dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14315446

It is a cycle. It relates to bureaucratic and cultural inertia. The pendulum first goes to one side, then to the other. The juice thing is a moronic thing, and those who love it deserve what they supported. That means those in charge, the organizational equivalent of the 1%, are morons and anti-innovation. Those folks got to where they are from where the other 99% are, by being innovative. They have way too much capital, and too few brain-cells to differentiate anymore. It also looks like they didn't do their footwork.

Give it a few cycles, a few years, and let a few of us hard-working, thinking, and innovating 99% get a decent shot that isn't shot down by the current batch of bucket-heads at the top, and there will be another wave of "innovation". The truth is that the killer of innovation is much more about how the overall system functions, than the capacity of innovators. Did you know that Peter Principle Revisited actually leads to organizational topologies that reject talent. HR, who doesn't do math or graph theory has no idea what that sentence means. This is why there is a current drought of actual innovation.

Have to leave to pick up folks at the airport but as a brief note off just the title - my go-to examples/running list for the US possibly quashing innovation has historically been airless tires, but there was another example I'll try and dig up when I get back (maybe someone else can in the meantime) was one circulating about innovative needles for hospitals to prevent accidental injections among healthcare professionals - I believe it was brought up on HN, might sound familiar.

If the title-based judgement is unrelated, apologies. If it is not, I'd love to hear more examples of this, been wanting to get a list going for further study.

A better, bigger, perspective: http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/05/11/silicon-valley-a-realit...

This article is a disorganized and incoherent mess with a trite political moral.

The only "problem" I see is that there's a lot of vc money out there willing to take a long shot.