Comment: Re:This thought crosses my mind a lot. (Score 1) 786
The same people who can't credit properly throughout history are the same folks who ignore Adam Smith's premise for his Wealth of Nations: One big assumption being that all needs of a Nation have and are met leaving on the wants to be fought out by business owners miraculously all focused on convincing the consumer their product(s)/service(s) offer them the greatest value for their capital.
Seeing as no nation is remotely at the point of a nation's needs already being sustained and fulfilled how Smith's thesis became a bastion of capitalist economic theory should have one questioning the merits of this pure capitalism pipe dream.