Paid Article: Making Money Requires a Tomb-Raider Mindset



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Musk's SpaceX has only about ten thousand employees, yet what it has achieved dwarfs what India's 400,000 space workers have.

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It's no exaggeration to say the value the former has created for humanity may be ten thousand times the latter's.

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But why is this so?

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I think the main reason: the former is a highly flexible, innovative, high-per-capita-income private company, while the latter is a rigid, old-fashioned, low-per-capita-income state unit.

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In other words: selfish desire is the core driver of productivity development, not grand slogans and shared visions.

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Similarly, most ancient tombs large and small in history were looted by grave robbers rather than first found by archaeologists.

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It even happens that a tomb is looted by a dozen waves of robbers before archaeologists find and excavate it—by which time there's almost nothing valuable left, only worthless broken porcelain shards.

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But why is this so?