Is America Really Running Out of Original Ideas?

The unabated “creative destruction” of one kind of capital after another has only further increased the wealth of a few and done nothing to emancipate the overall collective creative spirit, which has remained stagnant. Today, almost every artistic effort inevitably (perhaps unknowingly) reinscribes the values of the ruling capitalist class.

Cheap access to capital should drive innovation and problem-solving... why is it that “money in the 21st century simply doesn’t know what to do with itself”?

Hypothesis 3: The "innovation as mining" hypothesisThe "innovation as mining" hypothesis says that ideas naturally get harder to find over time, in both science and art. So we should expect that it takes more and more effort over time to maintain the same rate of innovation.