Comment on Why It Was Almost Impossible to Make the Blue LED
nintendiator@feddit.cl 7 months agoCapitalism never chooses the best path, but neither does any other system. We haven’t invented a perfect system, and it’s probably impossible. Sounds like a strange critique since we’ll never reach perfection
Just because nothing is perfect doesn’t mean we can’t call out stuff for not being it. Sounds like a strange critique since we’re supposed to improve on things.
iopq@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Yes, but in any system some guy will decide which research is important. And that guy can’t possibly make correct decisions every time.
I don’t see a way to improve on it
nintendiator@feddit.cl 7 months ago
Doesn’t matter. What matters is that they make correct decisions oftener than before.
And the way to improve on it is clear: do more of that, with peer review.
Come on this is not news, this is how progress has worked in the last [checks smudgy writing] 4600 years.
iopq@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Then invest in a company that is structured that way, there’s no actual constraint on how a company is organized in capitalism