Actually coming up with a highly profitable idea would be far too hard. Look at Facebook, the guy (allegedly) took someone elses idea then ran off with it.

But surely good new ideas occur randomly, and it's a numbers game. So instead of stealing lots of peoples ideas, why not randomly generate them until we come up with something good?

But then we're stuck with having to review them, which is again too hard work. Maybe we could outsource it in the guise of a Facebook game or something - and with a restrictive AUP we could own all the good ideas people submit royalty free.

... or we could go down the thievery path... after all, it's the shortest-route solution...

Maybe graph theory COULD help: Find a good way of modelling all the possible ways to get from Node A (Me) to Node B (Money), then do some kind of shortest path algorithm.

Interesting....

And how did people start production-based companies in the good old days anyway? Surely they couldn't survive on such meager incomes at that point? Or maybe they specialised and sold things at a ridiculous profit?

But people today don't want to spend money, right? They want everything cheap. Wait a second, lots of people are willing to spend money on things they might not need, at ridiculous prices... idiots!

I wonder if there are any formal studies on what makes idiots hand over money for things? Maybe there's some kind of catnip for idiots that make them hand over cash.

So maybe market research is back to front, surely if we can figure out what impulses people to pull out their wallet in the first place, we can cobble these together to make people give us money for no reason whatsoever....

* Work is an exchange of money for labour
* My Income is a salary (read: fixed)
* Therefore as labour decreases, profit increases
* Doing nothing takes zero time
* Therefore I can do infinite amounts of nothing
* Therefore I'm being infinitely underpaid

I think I'm either being massively underpaid, or I've overestimated how much effort is required to do nothing...