1/39 I haven't done a mega-thread in a while. Apologies in advance.
Big business in North America and some other places - some of Europe, plus portions of the economy in Japan, Korea, and various others - is widely seen as unwilling or unable to innovate and invest in its own future.
The reason for it boils down to personal greed. This take isn't even very controversial; it's certainly not original. But I have a proposal that might be, and might help fix it.
22/39 Google is known to hire a lot of sharp people. They pay well, probably the best in the tech field, by a significant margin. That same investor also loudly called for Google to cut the salaries it pays its people, because ... well, you know why. Quarterly profits. Stock price.