So said the fictitious chairman of the board, Mr. Jensen, to fictitious news anchor Howard Beale in the movie Network . The fact is, the fundamental basis, not just of this planet's ecology or economy, but of the entire universe itself, is exchange and transaction, no matter whether it's physics or finance, biology or business. Think about it. Suns burn from so many thermonuclear reactions of hydrogen being converted into helium and then carbon. Babies are born from the exchange of precious bodily fluids.
Plants grow from the conversion of light and shit.
And it seems to be an inevitability in business that, at some point along the way, the vision is outweighed by the desire for profitability, and the inventor, being an impractical visionary and business amateur, gets in the way of that - so he's bought out, or in any case his baby is taken away by the entrepreneur. This producer has observed this himself, at companies he's worked for. There's also one of the best general examples - Apple Computer. Typical palace coup. Today, like the split between Constantinople and Rome, the Biospherics landscape is divided between two camps.