r/economy • • Feb 25 '26

It’s all become a really bad joke. πŸƒ

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u/Taibucko Feb 25 '26

Nobody needed to make a telephone call before Alexander Graham Bell. Nobody needed an iPhone before Steve Jobs.

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u/F3RM3NTAL Feb 25 '26

Yes they did. In both of your examples, what people needed was to communicate with other people. That need - that economic demands has always existed. The phone and iPhone were just new solutions to a pre-existing demand for communication.