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So for decades, we've watched as efforts to solve tough problems fall prey to gamesmanship and partisanship, to the prosaic concerns of politics, the ever-quickening news cycle, to endless campaigns focused on scoring points instead of meeting our common challenges.
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For decades, we've watched as efforts to solve tough problems have fallen prey to the bitterness of partisanship, to prosaic concerns of politics, to ever-quickening news cycles, to endless campaigns focused on scoring points instead of meeting our common challenges.
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Incentive backed challenges attract "maverick thinkers who challenge normal assumptions" and make heroes of the teams who compete in these paradigm-changing efforts to solve significant social problems like building the ultimate fuel-efficient car or developing a lunar landing vehicle.
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And misguided efforts to force them to create such cross-subsidies through regulation often create more problems than they solve.
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Its efforts to reform the pensions system and the health service only scrape at the surface of the problems they are designed to solve.
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Social entrepreneurs are on a mission to solve problems plaguing society, but such altruistic efforts do not force these ventures into becoming profitless charities by default.
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