Innovation and Empowering Democracy: Insights from Balaji Srinivasan at Startup School 2013

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TLDR Innovation often comes from outside established systems, and exit complements voice to empower democracy and create alternative systems.

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    Innovation often comes from outside established systems, as discussed in Balaji Sreenivasan's lecture on Silicon Valley's ultimate exit.
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    Voice and exit are two ways to change a system, with voice being changing from within and exit being leaving to create a new system, and this can be applied in various contexts such as open-source, customer complaints, company turnaround plans, and even in the context of a country.
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    Exit complements voice and empowers democracy by providing alternatives to reduce the influence of bad policies.
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    ๐Ÿ’ป Silicon Valley is disrupting traditional industries and reducing the importance of government decisions.
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    Job automation โ‰  unemployment crisis, technology reduces prices and spreads consumption from the 1% to the 99%.
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    Silicon Valley's ultimate goal is to create a tech-run society outside the US where experimentation is prioritized over regulation.
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    Creating new countries can be done peacefully by learning from the best examples and opting out of society on a private island.
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    The future society will be shaped by technologies that reduce barriers to exit and increase mobility.
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