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I agree. It's like we have so much talent in these occupations and very, very little talent or ambition or imagination or something at the executive and investo

• toomuchtodo 5y ago
  The latter which you refer to receive the most financial gain for expending as little energy and capital as possible to maximize their returns. You have to want more than financial gain to engage in high risk high reward engineering endeavors (building EVs, building space vehicle build and launch systems with your own capital), although financial gain is likely a side effect of being successful in those endeavors.
  • throwaway894345 5y ago
    > You have to want more than financial gain to engage in high risk high reward engineering endeavors I think it's more likely that people who are purely motivated by financial gain are likely to lack the imagination or drive to realize anything significantly innovative. Maybe we're saying the same thing?
    • throwaway894345 5y ago
      Note: I say this as someone who has never realized anything significantly innovative :)