The inventor has a far easier path to profit because he or she has the patent. Those folks will profit immediately. There is no one to pay for inventing. The inventors are their own overhead.
Then there are those that reach for what others have and try and make it their own. Elon is like that. He came up with a money scheme that, as it worked out, people needed. That, of course, was PayPal. I suppose it can be called an invention, but, it is more an application of what can be done under the law to serve a need.
You know who really loves PayPal even today? You guessed it. Immigrants. They work here and send much needed income home. And, it is accomplished in a matter of a minute.
Elon worked with his brother to the point where he could move on in ambition and took on the challenge named Tesla. He hired exceptionally talented young people. They put together “robotic assembly.” Much to Elon’s credit that technology was given to any auto manufacturer to compete with Tesla in the market place.
Elon parleyed Tesla’s profit into Space X. Tesla’s profit wasn’t the only part of the deal. Musk worked his magic and he has come to be the sole ferry to and from the American side of the ISS. Space X thrives on taxpayer money with exploding rockets. NASA is left to patiently wait for Space X to get it right and the USA space program is somewhat stalled.
It is time for the private space enterprise to thrive on its own for its own purposes and the USA reclaim space dominance as a sovereign self-contained program.
To be noted within this dialogue is the fact Space X and NASA are competing for the same talent to move their programs forward. That is simply crazy. Elon can’t do Space X alone at any of the inventing processes. On the other hand NASA is a conglomerate of talent that can multitask.
Long about now I suppose I should retreat into saying nasty things and use popular media to drive Space X out of business, but, that is not my purpose or desire. I wish Spsce X no harm. It isn’t any of my business, but, NASA is.
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