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How true is the phrase: "Necesity is the mother of innovation"? (lemmygrad.ml)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

There's many mothers of innovation. If you would call something the mother of all innovation, it would be inspiration. And inspiration can be caused by anything. Necessity, sure. But also laziness, curiosity, boredom, irritation, competition, greed/profit, desire for fame, desire for doing good, or just pure unadulterated randomness.

There's something to be said about necessity driving useful innovation in capitalism.