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But the issue isn't that people are doing these incremental things. The issue is that they claim to be doing more than that, and they aren't. They're claiming to cure cancer by buying knick-knacks in Hungary which are taxed and the money used to pay for the electric grid powering the hospital where a patient with cancer is staying and occasionally gets visited by his son who happens to be researching a cure for cancer.
At some point, you can't take credit any more. Take a page out of other industries' books. Just shut up about innovation and focus on quality.
Even this is obscuring the truth somewhat. Last year (?) an IT person in charge of xvideos.com (porn site) noted that they had deployed a technology stack further than it had been done before. This increased confidence in said stack for others, which could have all sorts of ripple effects that eventually lead to making an amazing innovation.
But the issue isn't that people are doing these incremental things. The issue is that they claim to be doing more than that, and they aren't. They're claiming to cure cancer by buying knick-knacks in Hungary which are taxed and the money used to pay for the electric grid powering the hospital where a patient with cancer is staying and occasionally gets visited by his son who happens to be researching a cure for cancer.
At some point, you can't take credit any more. Take a page out of other industries' books. Just shut up about innovation and focus on quality.