The Rich Have Stopped Spending And That Has Tanked The Economy

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18. Agree with all, in particular the last sentence.

Money dominates innovation and distribution. Invention is not the same as innovation, invention is a clean break to something new, innovation is better tweaks off a defined base.

While I agree with the gist of your last sentence, my argument is that money controls all four, and therein lays society's problem. Money can fund many tweaks that allow it to control industries. Money controls distribution, a person can have invented the greatest new thing, but unless money gets behind that, the most likely outcome is failure and obscurity, there are periodic exceptions to that, where an invention is so earth shattering that the inventor can muscle his or her way into markets.