America turns 250. Its greatest innovation was never a product — it was a system that let anyone build one
via fortune.com
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For most of human history, progress required permission. To build something new, you needed approval from a monarch, a guild, or an authority. To rise, you needed to be allowed. Opportunity was not pursued. It was granted. Then came 1776. The Declaration of Independence did more than separate a colony from a crown. It introduced […]