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  As someone who makes a majority of their income being a consultant for people and companies I'd say ideas aren't cheap at all. 
  Especially since most people (not all) need some type of guidance or starting point to even spark any of their own original ideas.
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  Imaginators, not inventors.
  Inventing includes all the technical aspects and goes from the idea to a functional prototype. >
  
  A lot of science fiction writers do go into technical detail for their books. Which would be a huge reason why real inventors later down the line credit science fiction works/writers as their inspiration.
  Also, imaginator sounds dumb AF. >
  
  Probably why the last Skylanders game was called Imaginators...because the series was being dumbed down. >
  
  Ideas are cheap man. 
  I remember when Twitter started, someone said that their novel idea was just to limit the number of characters. But there is so much that goes behind the scenes to support the massive traffic that goes through the twitter network. 
  Fiction writers are wishful thinkers. Like the guy who wrote the movie ‘Her’ such a brilliant rendition of AI supplementing for romantic needs of humans. Looks straightforward on paper, but it’s gonna take a minute to get there.