Innovation Will Save Us

Bill Gates is giddy that the Investment Bill is being passed. With some of the billions goint to innovators, unimagined new technologies will be developed that will pull human society back from the brink in the nick of time. Bill is that true believer to his very core. He knows deep down that the Arc of Technology is long but it bends toward progress. One has to live in a very insulated, rarified space to be so optimistic, to have such rose colored glasses. The Investment Bill demonstrates to me exactly how low the bar has been set in this age of crisis, that we think some solar energy is going to preserve order. We are at 422 ppm at Manau Loa. If the awesome power of capitalist innovation was going to save us, wouldn't it have kicked in a little sooner? Does the grotesque sausage making of Washington DC, Manchin and Sinema and the Republican Party, not demonstrate something about Capitalist "Democracy"? But no, for the Bill Gates' of the world, young innovators sitting in incubators drinking energy drinks can accomplish miracles. This is America. With the passage of the Bill we are Great Again!