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Old 05-06-2008, 06:54 AM
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Originally Posted by Whaler17 View Post
Maybe these items weren't invented for profit, but the profit motive is what made them available to the people who needed them!!!
That is true. But it does imply that profit is better for disbursing certain types of goods than for leading to its creation.
After all it's less expensive and risky to create yet another dumb cell phone device than to create the next step in infrastructure... and to the average firm far more likely to produce profit.
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