Does greed breed innovation?

I'll get back to that in a minute.

I honestly hope we can keep politics out of this thread. I realize this entire period of the growth of our Nation was almost entirely political, but that's not why I posted this tread.

Innovation is why I posted this. And believe it or not, this thread and this series is somewhat related to boating. A bit of a stretch maybe, but one of the main reasons why the internal combustion engine was designed was greed. Or was it innovation?? You be the judge.

Most of us have read about these guys a long time ago. Whats a shame is, imo, we learned about them when we were too young for us to really understand what was going on. So its always nice to read and see what these guys were up to when you actually have had enough life experience for it to sink in....a little.


I've watched a little of this and I'm recording the rest. Fascinating stuff to me. Check it out.


http://www.history.com/shows/men-who-built-america