Or put another way, the people who create something worth $300B out of nothing get to decide what happens to their share of the $300B.  And as a bonus, these are people with demonstrated success in their ventures, and they are given free reign to pursue their vision fully.  Whereas the public sector is a mess of a dysfunctional congress, infighting, posturing, pork, global warming deniers, and discourse targeted to short attention spans and the 24 hour news cycle.<p>There is something very troubling about the idea that the more successful&#x2F;valuable your creation becomes, the less entitled you are to invest the fruit of your success into your next idea.