[lbo-talk] Fetish of "Innovation"

[Carrol Cox]

Most innovation, like most mutations,is destructive. Praising innovation 
is praising the destructiveness of capitalism. There is a current 
instance of innovation which is far more typical than anything what's 
his name produced at Apple. I mean what has happened to facial tissues. 
Both Kimberley-Clark (Kleenex) and Proctor and Gamble (Puffs) some time 
ago reduced the size of their tissues, but now they have reduced it 
further and moreover reduced the strength radically. That is the 
innovation that a number of posters today have bubbled about. Endless 
change to no human purpose.

I do not ordinarily post on the evils of capitalism on this list, & I 
tend to be contemptuous of those who do. It's merely talking to oneself 
in a corner. But when I see Innovation made into a little tin god to 
worship, I have to register a protest.

Carrol