1/ You have to find a deeper motivation to work on business problems than money. Otherwise they’re only about as motivating as sudoku, and inspire only about as much imagination. Money-motivated solutions to business problems tend to have a dull, mechanical quality to them
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10/ Killing takes less imagination than creating life, and is also close-ended by construction. Arbitrage opportunities remove the assymetries they exploit. Trading diffuses the information it exploits. Takes a darker type of personality to enjoy this. And lots of money.
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11/ These are rarely businesses people would “do for free” if they could. Some people do design/art for the love of it even with no money in sight. Nobody does say commodities trading or debt collection for that kind of motive.
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12/ Mind you, the destruction side businesses are crucial to overall economic vitality, just like scavenger species like vultures are crucial to ecosystems. That common comparison is a good one though the negative connotations should be ignored.
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13/ Still, most humans thrive better on the creative, life-giving side of the economy. Interestingly,
@jhagel “unbundling the corporation” thesis identifies the same 3-way partition of business models, for different reasons, but I don’t think it’s a coincidence.Show this thread
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This ignores the critical component caring for wealth plays in society. Alpha generation and capital preservation is a valuable service to help people navigate through markets and maximize their wealth and their own financial contribution to society.
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