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Addressing a crowd of 500 members of Canadian tech during the BetaKit Town Hall the CEO of Shopify said the country suffers from a “go-for-bronze” culture.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Innovation is incentivized with greater returns. Just because those returns aren't excessively large, doesn't mean it's not there. You still get a net positive on innovating. Cigarettes are taxes in such a way that smoking at all is a net negative for most people. That's what makes it a disincentive.