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Meanwhile, to elaborate on Thiel’s point that individuals don’t usually have the resources to develop revolutionary inventions, financial consultants estimate that it takes a minimum of about $25,000 to develop a new invention.

According to Christensen, revolutionary innovations typically start out in markets that are too small to interest established companies, though they can grow exponentially from there. In The Innovator’s Dilemma, Clayton Christensen elaborates on Thiel’s observation that established companies seldom create revolutionary technologies. So Kaczy nsk i’s i dea was to dest roy exist‑ ing in stitutions, get rid o a ll techno logy, and let peo ple start over and work on har d problems a new. What you can do, even a child ca n do what you can’ t do, even Einstei n couldn’ t have do ne. What’s let to do is either easy or impossible, and pursuing those tasks is deeply unsatisying. Kaczyn ski arg ued that mode rn people are de‑ pressed because all the world’s hard problems have already been solved. This is the classic trichotomy o the easy, the hard, and the impossibl e. Goals that cannot be satised, n o matter ho w mu ch eort one makes. Goals that can be satised with serious eort and 3. Goals that can be satised with min ima l eort 2.

Kaczynski claimed that in order to be happy, every individ‑ ual “needs to have goals whose attainment requires eort, and needs to succeed in attaining at least some o his goals.” He divided human goals into three groups: 1. Y ou mig ht expect that wr iting style to have shown ob‑ vious signs o insanity, but the maniesto is eerily cogent.

It worked: Kacz yn‑ ski’s brother recognized his writing style and turned him in. The FBI asked some prominent newspapers to publish it, hoping or a break in the case. The biggest clue was a 35,000‑ word man‑ iesto that Kaczynski had written and anonymously mailed to the press. In late 1 995, the authoritie s did n’ t know who or where the Unabomber was. Campaign he waged with pipe bombs against proessors, techno logists, and busi nesspeop le.

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