Well, Bret Victor presumably isn't rich rich. Some ideas—key novel concepts and conceptual frameworks, for example—absolutely have value, but they're not valua

Well, Bret Victor presumably isn't rich rich. Some ideas—key novel concepts and conceptual frameworks, for example—absolutely have value, but they're not valuable in the way a business is valuable. You won't become business-owner rich just by coming up with the right concept, but you can have a successful research career, get enough funding to run a small research group, win a Nobel/etc prize... etc. But that says more about how our society and economy are organized than it does about the inherent value of ideas qua ideas.