Chapter 3 - Is Opportunity Monopolized? No man is kept poor because opportunity has been taken away from him; because other people have monopolized the wealth, and have put a fence around it. You may be shut off from engaging in business in certain lines, but there are other channels open to you. Probably it would be hard for you to get control of any of the great railroad systems; that field is pretty well monopolized. But the electric railway business is still in its infancy, and offers plenty of scope for enterprise; and it will be but a very few years until traffic and transportation through the air will become a great industry, and in all its branches will give employment to hundreds of thousands, and perhaps to millions, of people. Why not turn your attention to the development of aerial transportation, instead of competing with J.J. Hill and others for a chance in the steam railway world? It is quite true that if you are a workman in the employ of the steel trust ...





Rules are made by men, it is natural to get out of the rules in order to see clearly which parts of the rules needs to be changed. True talk.
ReplyDeleteSemiyu Olagolden
To circumvent a rule to bring a new product into being, that is called innovation
DeleteI think this is subjective and not typical to all rules.
ReplyDeleteThere are some things that you must observe the rule in other to create. Eg. You must observe the rule of heating for instance (if it needs 20 degrees of heat), and you want to produce a car body part through heating steam of an object, you must heat it to that 20degrees in other to produce an adequate product.
The old usually gives way to the new when it is tinkered with
Deletethat tinkering is going against the normal mill