Great ideas are so rare that when someone gets one, we throw too much money at them. We make them famous. We make ceremony in their honor.
Take for instance the guy that thought of a way to blow the hell out of everything. He got rich on the idea that allows us to safely blow things up in a great explosion. Now we can blow up rocks, mountains, oceans, the country side, cities full of people, and do it safely.
This idea was so good that whenever anyone thinks of a better way to blow thin... read more