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Originally Posted by Baraka_Guru
You are suggesting that investors want to put money into things without first realizing the potential for a market. There are investors that might do this, but it likely happens on a small scale, because it's a huge risk.
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The above point is the key point where we diverge, and if we can not get past this, we will never understand each other.
Investors put money into things without first realizing the potential - yes, yes, yes. The people who do this change the world. In the next 60 seconds if you look around your surroundings, virtually everything you see, will be based on some person at some point in time investing into something without realizing the potential.
Take something like the internet. Sure, the folks who developed it saw potential - but what they saw was narrow compared to the fully realized potential as we experience it today - no human anticipated the internet. No human knows where it will be 100 years from today. However, people invest.
My gut tells me, I could give a list of 1,000 examples and it would not matter to your way of viewing this issue. But, one final comment - think of human history in terms of ages - prehistoric age, bronze age, dark ages, golden age, etc. and think of what these ages had in common and what triggered them. In each case I think we can point to humans "investing" without first realizing the potential. And in each case it was based on the initiatives of individuals.