"The number one benefit of information technology is that it empowers people to do what they want to do. It lets people be creative. It lets people be productive. It lets people learn things they didn't think they could learn before, and so in a sense it is all about potential."
Failure is just a stepping stone to success. It's not the end, it's just part of the journey.
In economics, as in life, the answers are often more nuanced than they first appear.