Money, Money, Money!!
“All you can talk about is money”, says Greta Thumberg, the famous teen climate activist.
“Warren … fails to see the value of venture capital [money]”, a venture capitalist writes in the Boston Globe, 10.31.19. “The government does not have the capacity to determine which future technology will lead to the largest job creation [?] … as venture capitalists [do].”
My personal experience in technology innovation was from government, The National Science Foundation, with 3 grant awards — never from venture capital even with my 20-year, successful design and manufacturing business. Job Creation has never been a goal of any technology business, big or small — and rarely for any other industry, even though they claim it in false promotion. The primary goal of most big businesses is profit for shareholders. The resulting jobs in the technology industry are primarily for computer monkeys.
Money is a decimal-point system for the exchange of the products and labors from one to another. When money becomes a product it is evil.
A Bloomberg columnist wrote in the Patriot Ledger, “Job quantity? Yes. Job quality? Not so much. … The non-wage factors in the Gallup report … the job quality is the extent of engagement someone has in the workplace.“ To me, that engagement is the enjoyment of the work process and sharing the joy of successful results for all of us. I had this with my workers in the 60s and 70s in my business. Later in the late 70s and early 80s, as my business grew, I needed to hire and train young workers. Unlike my older workers who shared equally, these workers demanded I be a parent and give them continually more money and power — as promoted by unions and government. I felt like a horse being forced to drive the wagon with my workers. Enjoyment and engagement was lost, including for me, and I sold my business to go to the next stage of my life: technology grants and business. I hired no workers just independent entrepreneurs, with whom I shared engagement and successful financial results.