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We can vividly say a person is productive when their ideas are prospectful, creative and unique and of course yields dividends and provide certain meaning that can be relatable. The universe as a whole is valuable and even without us talking about mineral resources or even rare gems or diamonds and golds which can sell for millions of dollars or other relative currency.
When we talk about the universe's valuability it comes in terms of discovering tangle and Intangible ideas that could become great business venture in the present or in the future.
People are creative, their life themselves are a marketable experience that can be sold. A popular movie producer in Nigeria once said he got the idea of his movie while he was attending his father's burial
This is to say that our mind sometimes can become the resource we need to build a craft, a mega industry or a business opportunity that can become really huge and these inspiration mostly lies in the little things we do.
The ideas of cars were gotten from the idea that people need to travel, cheaper, faster and easier and the idea for airplane were gotten from the reason that traveling needs to take new dimension of speed, who knows if teleportation might become a reality and even reduce the redundancy of traveling?
This we don't know but it's only a proof that human needs increases and so does the ideas to satiate this needs are incentivized and created into legal business opportunities.
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Having an idea is one thing but means and opportuinities are something else. In restrospect, prospectful ideas are like money in a zygote stage which can easily die off, aborted or not nurtured to a stage where dividends might be possible.
It was widely reported on social media that Eminem send more than 6 recording of his songs to FAT JOE but then he never even considered to buy into the young Eminem who was full of ideas but needs the platform in form of an opportunity.
If you look at the world poverty will always remain a thing not because people are lacking creative ideas to take them out of poverty but because there are no means, opportunity or a platform with which they can build from.
Nowadays if you go to a bank looking for a loan to fund your ideas you'll be let off because you don't have a solid background in terms of collateral. This is to say the world world works quadilateraly and each and everyday ideas that could better lives, people, create means and wealth are killed because the world hardly has angel investors.
Now I am not saying every idea automatically translates to prospects but then are there even platforms fo weigh the viability of people who seems prospectful and willing to bring to the table the next big thing. The rich rolls with the rich and this subjects money to be something you can only make when you have monetary equity. This is far from it. The internet has proven that starting from nothing is possible.
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Back in the days in old Igbo culture of south eastern Nigeria, a man is valued by brawn, how many lands you can till and how many warriors you can kill. Anything less than this reduces your worth or value as a man. But with the advent of evolution of the human race this has been proven rather untrue.
Someone can be in hospital completely non-functional and still be making money from the comfort of his laptop. This is to say value isn't limited to a particular standards.
Blockchain blogging for example provides a platform. I have been a failed writer in my attempts to monetize my contents by publishing it but it has failed numerous times by editors and publishing houses. Nevertheless here I am, carved a niche for myself and established a mainstay.
.The world isn't even wealthy we only have a few percentage who are. If you think Elon Musk is a visionary it was only because his ideas were funded and established.
The world is filled with millions of visionary that ends up unacomplished because of lack of opportunities, this continues creating a huge dichotomy a reason why we'd still have the concept of "rich" and "poor"