Saturday, September 15, 2012

Elon Musk, an Industrialist For the 21st Century

If he's making money he's an industrialist.

If he's not then he's a philanthropist.

I think GP is merely arguing the word choice that's all.

These two aren't antonyms, nor even mutually exclusive. I would agree that profit-seeking is a nearly ubiquitous goal of industrialists, but that is not the defining characteristic. Being involved in industry is.

Being an "industrialist" doesn't require seeking a profit anymore than a "business" requires profit. There are certainly "non-profit businesses", and the phrase "non-profit industry" should be familiar to most here.

Industrialists don't have to be robber barons in order to be industrialists.

Source: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~3/_JJ1f6yppl4/elon-musk-an-industrialist-for-the-21st-century

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