Chronic28

This. Maybe Amazon should have hired the marketing geniuses here on HN.

Great. You are 1 out of 100,000 people that understand the metaphor.

There was no need for you to mention your company's name.

That doesn't sound like indenture. If you aren't contributing to society, you do not deserve anything. This is precisely what corporations do today and it works.

They care because ideas propagate.

Given the amount of data available, it is not unreasonable to expect n>1000

Or the OP is just not good at what he does.

And what about the people who are paying by providing their information to Google for free? I don't see much support for them.

"But if we're not working hard and all night, our competitors who are will end up taking our clients"

Here on HN, we would rather fully understand and rationally discuss the publishers claims rather than taking their conclusion as final word solely based on the Forbes name.

Most organizations don't need the top 20% talent to solve their problems to make a profit.

For enough money, I'm willing to bet anyone will "suck it up"

Everyone has their "jump ship" price

He's made quite a bit of profit over the past year then.

People are not actually learning. They are simply "along for the ride" while memorizing for tests so they can land a job and forget most of the things they've learned. Perhaps we should improve our secondary education as we are lacking on that front in America instead of encouraging everyone to take 4 more years out of their working lives.

And yet I don't see Arizona contributing much to the US economy, social welfare, and/or higher education. They are contributing some, but below your average state.

Edit: Made the point more clear.