The idea that competition drives innovation is... just... I mean, we've had neo-liberal ideologists breathing down our necks every waking moment since the 80s, and have you SEEN what passes for innovation lately??
The problem with neo-liberals is, you can point to this a hundred times over and they'll still argue that we simply haven't had enough of their medicine
Come to think of it, all these tech gold rushes like blockchain and genAI are basically -simulacra- of progress and innovation
@anarchiv In a sense, ai in particular, is a psychohistorical inevitability.