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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.
\It's no exaggeration to say the value the former has created for humanity may be ten thousand times the latter's.
\But why is this so?
\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.
\In other words: selfish desire is the core driver of productivity development, not grand slogans and shared visions.
\Similarly, most ancient tombs large and small in history were looted by grave robbers rather than first found by archaeologists.
\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.
\But why is this so?