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On Thu, 11 Jul 2024 19:38:17 +0200, Jeroen Belleman
<jeroen@nospam.please> wrote:

>On 7/11/24 16:55, john larkin wrote:
>> On Thu, 11 Jul 2024 12:00:31 +0100, Joe <joe@jretrading.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> On Thu, 11 Jul 2024 09:29:33 +0100
>>> The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> The problem is that Socialists mistake 'job creation' with 'wealth
>>>> creation'
>>>>
>>>
>>> It's worse than that. Socialists don't know what wealth creation is.
>>>
>>> And many problems are rooted in the fact that socialists measure the
>>> success of a policy in terms of how much (other peoples') money is spent
>>> on it, not in terms of what it achieves.
>>>
>>> So nobody in the US government is at all bothered by the spending of
>>> 7.5 billion dollars on EV charging stations, with only seven stations
>>> functional after three years. It's the money spent which matters.
>> 
>> Wealth is the thing that allows human resources to be invested
>> long-term, and not all burned up right now.
>> 
>> Marx was a moron.  "Capital" is just a symptom of what really matters,
>> which is ideas.
>> 
>> Communist countries crush ideas, which is why they are so poor.
>> 
>> 
>
>Ideas are good, but not enough. Someone will have to do the
>work, too. Who said 1% inspiration, 99% perspiration? Edison?
>
>Jeroen Belleman

Ideas generate money. Money doesn't generate ideas.

A good idea often starts in a garage (or lately, a dorm room) with
hardly any capital. It creates jobs and industries.

HP, Microsoft, google, Facebook, and the first airplane started very
small.