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Or "a million entrepreneurs who are responsible and fully in control of their own healthcare and retirement benefits". If you're self-employed, you can choose the precise healthcare and retirement package that makes sense for you.

Or "50k new firms each with 20 employees". When I first read the OP I thought about some new "Green Power" innovation where you need installers, servicers, etc. Possibly-crazy example would be PV that's 100x cheaper / more efficient than today, leading to an explosion in the demand for rooftop installations -- to the level of nearly every household, strip mall, big box, etc in the developed world. Prior example might be the auto industry 100 years ago, which created a need for parts mfg firms, dealers, mechanics, etc.

Or an entirely new and previously unheard of industry. Definitely-crazy example would be making Mars colonization possible, where you'd need thousands of employees for production, thousands more colonists, specialists like pilots, entire sub-industries, etc. The canonical prior example would be the explosive growth of the internet over the past 30 years; SEO as a job title (to pick one) didn't exist in 1990.




Prior example might be the auto industry 100 years ago, which created a need for parts mfg firms, dealers, mechanics, etc. (...) Or an entirely new and previously unheard of industry.

Pneumatic transit comes to mind. Demonstrating the viability of Hyperloop as the first new mode of transportation since the jet would spurn a whole new global industry practically overnight!




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