On: Hans Rosling doesn’t consider himself an optimist ...

[geofft]

My favorite example here is marijuana trafficking, for which there is still a generation of people in prison, yet is now becoming an industry that YC is investing in (http://blog.ycombinator.com/meadow-yc-w15-ubered-over-a-doct...).

Some people, when they disrupt legal regulations to create an industry, go to jail and don't come back.