Is this about the US specifically?
There are many countries with universal healthcare and a decent social safety net (Scandinavia comes to mind).
Why haven’t we seen this explosion coming out of them?
There are many countries with universal healthcare and a decent social safety net (Scandinavia comes to mind).
Why haven’t we seen this explosion coming out of them?
You might argue that there's more tech came out of the UK (which still has some sort of healthcare, and had free education until recently) than there should considering its population and economy size. E.g. ARM, HTML, cloned sheep... Also quite a bit of popular music came from the UK. And Harry Potter was written by a person on state benefits.
The Scandinavian social safety net is excellent and I think the positive effects of that are apparent. People can take larger risks than they can in the US, but still nowhere near as large as they could with UBI
Does anywhere have something close that we could see partial "explosion"?
Or is the completely novel?
And the flip: Shouldn't Scandinavia be overrun with drug-addled do-nothings if social welfare is so bad?
I’m just skeptical of the parent poster claim that a Cambrian innovation explosion awaits us all if we would just welfare harder.
Oh btw, “Scandinavians” only includes countries in the Swedish axis of influence, so to include Finns alongside one has to say “Nordics”. Finland is Nordic without being Scandinavian (technically)