"The innovation is going to come, and that is good for everybody"
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Optimism, delivered with the tidy confidence of someone who’s spent time around boardrooms and policy panels. Rosen’s line has the cadence of a reassurance aimed at an audience that’s anxious about disruption: innovation isn’t a looming threat, it’s a scheduled arrival. “Is going to come” isn’t just prediction; it’s inevitability as a rhetorical tactic. If change can’t be stopped, the argument shifts from whether we want it to how we position ourselves when it lands.
The subtext is the classic pro-innovation bargain: tolerate the turbulence now because the long-term gains will wash out the costs. “Good for everybody” does a lot of work here. It universalizes benefits in a way that softens the reality that innovation often produces clear winners and losers in the short run - workers displaced, industries hollowed out, communities left negotiating the fine print. The phrase functions like a social lubricant, smoothing over distributional questions that are politically messy and ethically sharp.
Contextually, Rosen’s professional world matters. As a businesswoman and public-facing strategist, she’s likely speaking into debates where “innovation” is both a moral word and a market word: it signals progress, competitiveness, modernity. It also doubles as a permission slip for restructuring. The intent, then, isn’t to describe innovation so much as to normalize it and pre-empt backlash. It frames disruption as inclusive and benevolent, inviting listeners to see themselves not as potential casualties of change but as future beneficiaries - if they’ll just get on board now.
The subtext is the classic pro-innovation bargain: tolerate the turbulence now because the long-term gains will wash out the costs. “Good for everybody” does a lot of work here. It universalizes benefits in a way that softens the reality that innovation often produces clear winners and losers in the short run - workers displaced, industries hollowed out, communities left negotiating the fine print. The phrase functions like a social lubricant, smoothing over distributional questions that are politically messy and ethically sharp.
Contextually, Rosen’s professional world matters. As a businesswoman and public-facing strategist, she’s likely speaking into debates where “innovation” is both a moral word and a market word: it signals progress, competitiveness, modernity. It also doubles as a permission slip for restructuring. The intent, then, isn’t to describe innovation so much as to normalize it and pre-empt backlash. It frames disruption as inclusive and benevolent, inviting listeners to see themselves not as potential casualties of change but as future beneficiaries - if they’ll just get on board now.
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