Food for Thought
Here’s some food for thought… You know the expression “reinvent the wheel,” as in, “Don’t reinvent the wheel” or “I don’t want to reinvent the wheel”? That statement is silly! Doesn’t this way of thinking encourage an apathetic perspective toward innovation? Think about it. There are corporations devoted to reinventing the wheel.
Don’t believe me? Go look up these companies: Firestone, Goodyear, and Michelin. There are others, too. Has the American culture become so lazy that we are raised and conditioned to avoid doing what has already been done? With this way of thinking, companies like Google and Facebook wouldn’t exist; after all, they had predecessors. Why reinvent the “wheel”?
In addition, reinventing the wheel is what a capitalist market is all about, isn’t it? We need competition. If no one reinvented the wheel, there’d be no competition, which is important in a capitalist market.
Discuss.