Eh... "those who have the gold make the rules", including what kind of ideas to pursue. American, and SV in particiular, tends to be very predictable and focus

Eh... "those who have the gold make the rules", including what kind of ideas to pursue. American, and SV in particiular, tends to be very predictable and focuses and exploits ideas that capitalize on labor and work already available in some form. Examples are the so-called "innovations" in social networking, search advertisements, automated profiling (presumably for advertis etc), open source, yada yada yada