For proof, compare Spain's GDP to Netherland's GDP in the 1600s. Spain at the time controlled the most valuable mines in South America, but Netherlands invented

For proof, compare Spain's GDP to Netherland's GDP in the 1600s. Spain at the time controlled the most valuable mines in South America, but Netherlands invented the stock market and that eventually surpassed the value of the mines Spain held in South America. It makes me think about all the cyber criminals who if they channeled the same effort they do to commit crime into some kind of entrepreneurial business would do much better.