A Quote by John Naisbitt on entrepreneurs, entrepreneurship, capitalism, and economy
...countries don't create economies. It is entrepreneurs and companies that create and revitalize economies. The role of the governments should be to create a nourishing environment for entrepreneurs and companies to flourish, not to get in the way of economic development.
Source: Mind Set!: Reset Your Thinking and See the Future, Page: 159
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Maybe that quote was just taken out of context, and the rest of his argument is much more complex, but as it is, I see it as too simplistic. For example, I was watching a documentary last night on a river in Washington that the government chose to side with farmer's by diverting its water with a dam, in order for the farmers to continue producing crops. This caused the largest salmon die-off (80,000 strong), which years later is still affecting the local indigenous people who caught fresh-water salmon for a living. Both are entrepreneurs, but the government sided with one, leaving the other to go hungry, in a sense. In theory, the government has an easy job laid out for them, right? To create a nourishing environment, but sometimes everything's not so black-and-white. Yes, there should have been a well-thought out compromise, I understand that…what a predicament.
There is always a way it is up to us to find it. It is a perdicament but if we chose to we could have found a way to make it better. Through out history there has been many give and takes in situations and of course the best one should be the one we chose but government normally only choose's the one right for them. Sometimes it is governed by the side that makes the most noise unfortunate but true.