Can we believe in the human cornucopia of infinite innovation?

Since the earliest times of our economy we have depended on innovation to bring us the things we need. Our inventions have moved mountains and let us soar through the sky and our collective futures look bleak without trust in our power of invention, but innovation has much harder to muster. True innovation overcomes the cultural, physical and emotional barriers which separate so many of humans. "First world problems" are so significantly different than what happens in the rest of the world that we have made it a comical reference:


"I have an itch on my foot... but it tickles when I scratch it" FWP


So we see a vast difference in the entire way of thinking between our world cultures. There is a deep difference from the way we approach and identify problems. That is why the people who look to inspire the greatest and deepest change get to know these cultural differences intimately before trying to bring about change. Levitt Capital Management is an investing firm which tries to bring something deep and powerful to third world communities through his investment. Levitt mentions a television show where some American paramedics went to Pakistan and gave their services to Parkistani's and said that they did more for American-Pakistan relations than any government agency. In the same video he discusses the deep cultural difference which he tries to overcome when investing in other countries. These practices are the types of innovation in the financial market which can overcome our vast cultural differences and physical distances.

While our innovations for change around the world might not be seen as a bottom-up operation there are so many ways in which our innovation comes from the spirit of innovation. Innovation and entrepreneurship have a cultural spirit which ebbs and flows by the demand and cultivation brought about in our society. For America, I believe there is a great force of youth who drive this spirit today. Our need for developing change isn't as much in America now-in-days though. We need to find a way to spread entrepreneurship to the people of the world, to help cultivate innovative ideas in places where we wouldn't be the angels of prosperity bringing them opportunity but where we engaged in the communities which showed promise for innovation, promise for a culture of idea development. While I respect the role Kiva has played in bringing opportunity to small businesses. I believe we should be educating people around the world and offering a way to truly inspire innovation from the people who have the need for these things. The perfect program for inspiring a culture of innovation might not exist because it is impossible to simply create this. But we are growing a mainstream of mavericks in our culture and I believe we can spread our culture of innovation more than we had spread out culture of fast food and democratic politics. Becoming an entrepeneur is harder than reading a guide or taking a class. But we must innovate to bring prosperity to the world. Will we run out spirit? Will our infinite cornucopia of ideas and innovations fall from our expectations? And a harder question, is it only a special few who get to innovate in a worldwide pyramid of resources?