alvin

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When times are tight, people look for new, less expensive ways to do old things. Necessity breeds invention

22 responses to this plurk

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  Jun 29, 2009 - 01:07PM

  jennifer5

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  can't agree more

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  Jun 29, 2009 - 01:11PM

  YuChen

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  love it!!

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  Jun 29, 2009 - 01:38PM

  米小粒

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  invent,invent,invent

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  Jun 29, 2009 - 02:36PM

  Stepwise

  : good article... Thank you for sharing the link... here's to inventions and inventors everywhere...

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  Jun 29, 2009 - 08:28PM

  alvin

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  biglove987: not that i necessary agree with everything friedman says, but i think you are missing his points, especially with your

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  Jun 29, 2009 - 08:28PM

  alvin

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  'homeless people' argument. depression forces consumers to look for cheaper ways to do things, hence allow innovation that encourage such

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  Jun 29, 2009 - 08:29PM

  alvin

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  incentive. when everyone is well off, you can't make a lot of money by selling/inventing something that is 1 dollar cheaper. but when times

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  Jun 29, 2009 - 08:30PM

  alvin

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  are tight, every cents matter. And when there's no job security working for big corporation anymore, entrepreneurship takes off.

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  Jun 29, 2009 - 08:30PM

  alvin

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  perhaps your argument would be more substantive had you resort to less ad-hominem attack on friedman