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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Innovation is not only new products, innovation is in optimization

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I agree. I'm adding on to the parent comment to provide an example of a real situation in which people who could generally make ends meet while doing very little work are instead producing the bulk of our new technologies, discoveries, and (as you mention) optimizations.