I think one depressing example is innovation in weapons and other dangerous fields. "If we don't build it, someone else will first" is unfortunately historically been shown to be true, has it not?

Today's unsavory borderline reactionary doomposting brought to you by: my crippling fear that I'm isolating myself in a political echo-chamber (so naturally I gotta hop online and exclusively ask my fellow leftists)

    • SpiderFarmer [he/him]
      hexbear
      10
      5 months ago

      The variety of things that can be turned into corndogs is truly the height of capitalist innovation.

    • CyborgMarx [any, any]
      hexbear
      8
      5 months ago

      Let's be real, Americans didn't start dominating the treat game until the 70s, and half of that can be traced back to Japanese innovations in convenience and electronics

      • Omniraptor [they/them]
        hexbear
        1
        edit-2
        3 months ago

        I'm Russian and I was amazed to find out that popcorn is ancient and Americans actually had special machines for making even in the 1910s. We never got that shit even after khrush's initiative, and we love movies no less than americans. Popcorn became a thing there in the 90s

    • Comp4 [she/her]
      hexbear
      3
      5 months ago

      Exactly. I dont need 25 different flavours of Monster Energy drinks ... It is nice though.