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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield
That's a gross simplification. This country is much larger and has much different populations in terms of wealth, character of work, race, culture, state and local level political systems. Germany can implement a country wide policy. We are a tenuously united collection of very different states. Nothing is easily solved here, let alone something as impossibly difficult to tackle as poverty.
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I don't understand why any of those things really matter to how policy work. They do matter to willingness to adopt policy, which is different.
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It's also worth noting that an essential part of what causes this country to innovate a lot is people are working without nets. There's no incentive to succeed like realizing if you should fail...
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I think that's total nonsense, and the people who say it always have a net. It's really expensive to be poor. I'm in a part of the country where the innovation is happening. Uncoincidentally, it's one of the richest parts of the country. And the innovation here is happening in Palo Alto and downtown San Francisco, not East Palo Alto or the Bayview. When you look at people who are getting VC funding, how many come from poverty? Like, none, for obvious reasons. The incentive to succeed is great, but it takes much more than that. Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates went to Harvard. They dropped out, but not because they were poor. Larry Page and Sergei Brin were graduate students at Stanford. Having a great platform turns out to be a much better recipe for success than having a shitty platform and no net.
