<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:14pt"><div><span>Get the government out of the way to reduce incentives to go</span></div><div><span>to China.</span></div><div><span></span> </div><div><span>Dennis</span></div><div><br></div><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 14pt;"><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><font size="2" face="Arial"><div style="margin: 5px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); height: 0px; line-height: 0; font-size: 0px;" class="hr" contentEditable="false" readonly="true"></div><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> BillK <pharos@gmail.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> ExI chat list <extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Saturday, September
17, 2011 2:40 PM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [ExI] A Nobel laureate and climate change<br></font><br>2011/9/17 Dennis May wrote:<br><snip><br>> Those wanting to see amazing advances for the future need to stop vilifying<br>> the rich. Innovators who get to keep their money to expand their ability to<br>> innovate represent the kind of positive feedback required for the critical<br>> mass to innovate a technological culture. Redistribution is the wet blanket<br>> thrown on the fire of innovation.<br>><br>> $50 million will let you build a small plant - it will not leave you money<br>> to operate. If you want real innovation you need to leave the rich alone so<br>> that individual innovators can collect capital in the hundreds of millions and<br>> many billions of dollars so their visions can grow before they are smothered.<br>><br>> You want AI - leave
innovators alone to gather the sums required to get it<br>> going. The examples of redistribution stifling innovation are countless and<br>> sickening. Government picking winners and losers is redistribution -<br>> killing more and more innovation the more it is tried.<br>><br><br>You live in a mythical world. If a US billionaire wanted to produce a<br>new product his first thought would be to get quotes from Chinese<br>factories.<br><br>That's why the US people are facing poverty and living off food stamps.<br><br>The rich are China's friends.<br><br>BillK<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>extropy-chat mailing list<br><a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" ymailto="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.extropy.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/extropy-chat"
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