Jason Crawford

I haven't thought about that.

That's a great question.

So I don't know.

But to the extent that.

Everything gets more accelerated.

And today, you know, if you come up with any product, you have almost instantly a global market for it because you can market to the whole planet through the Internet and you can distribute anywhere through an extremely efficient, you know, cargo distribution network supply chain.

Seems to me like the incentives would be, if anything, larger than they ever have been.

The counter on that, by the way, is how much of a headwind you're going to face in terms of regulation.

So I think a lot of areas are now highly regulated in the way that they weren't before.

And that adds costs and overhead.

Huge question, but fundamental answer, yes.

I do think that

The philosophy of enlightenment is kind of a major primary cause.

This isn't necessarily something I feel I can prove yet, but it's something I do believe.

Steven Pinker's book, Enlightenment Now, makes a good case for this.

Even better, I would say, is Joel Mokir's work.

I mentioned him before as an economic historian, maybe my favorite economic historian, and

He actually a book of his that got me into this whole studying progress thing is called A Culture of Growth, in which he basically says that the he basically shows how the Enlightenment laid the foundation for the Industrial Revolution.

and he gives a lot of credit to Bacon and Newton.

It's probably because of that book that Bacon showed up on slide two or three today.