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This is a borderline submission. I don't want to troll with political articles but I found the following quote worthy of interest over here: ... According to a
by DanielBMarkham 15y ago
This is a borderline submission. I don't want to troll with political articles but I found the following quote worthy of interest over here:
... According to a 2009 survey of more than 26,000 people in 36 countries conducted by the Gallup Organization, only 31 percent of Americans agree with the statement that “entrepreneurs exploit other people’s work.” By contrast, 70 percent of Bulgarians, 72 percent of Estonians, 54 percent of Latvians, 79 percent of Lithuanians, 70 percent of Poles, 63 percent of Romanians, 73 percent of Slovenians, 73 percent of Slovakians, and 69 percent of Croats agree....
Many times when we talk about the Silicon Valley we talk about how the culture is so important because it fosters entrepreneurship. It's interesting to see some stats related to entrepreneurial culture in other places.
- mtts 15y agoActually, you know, in a lot of these places "enterpreneurs" do, in fact, exploit other people's work. After the fall of communism, formerly state owned enterprises, most of them nowhere near as worthless as they were made out to be, were sold for barely nothing to system cronies who then made obscene amounts of money when it turned out quite a few of these enterprises were, in fact quite profitable indeed. To which profitability the new owners contributed very little, if anything at all.