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But consider the margin of rice business market, it is not comparable with another business like vehicle components export. That is because of the price of rice is very low.
Let me tell you one bed-time story, in the countryside, a farmer cultivates his rice on the soil land, take care of it for three months, then every villagers would come together to help harvesting. A fat guy from metropolitan buys ten cart of rice with a piece of gold.
After shipping to the capital city, a fat guy sells a cart of rice to customers with ten piece of gold. This is the way "middleman" become rich buy selling the products, rice, from a farmer.
I don't say that a farmer is stupid or that middleman is cleaver, this is how the world is, and it has been since long long times ago. Even now our government try their best to get rid of this "middleman" and try to shortening the value chain so all the money that consumer pays wound end up at the farmer who works hard to cultivate rice.
So, as the title is, how dare I call the scientists as the another version of farmer.
I declare myself as Engineering-oriented people, and when I took High-Tech class, I'm listening to the lecturers as engineer (and scientist); the lecturers are business men who are success to commercialize the high technology-based product. I like this course, since they are giving their idea on how they set up the business, find the investment, do the marketing and another brilliant business strategies which I have never ever heard of.
And I heard how those business men is thinking about engineers/scientists who responsible to these technologies......
The curious is not something like "how the business man deals with his hired engineer" but it is "how they think" so it is not the thing that could be consider as right or wrong, kind ethic issue.
My feeling is weird now.
The annual financial report from many huge companies report the budget in each year, only around 1% of the total outcome is for Research and Development section, and I'm quite sure that the engineers who work there earn a lot less than that.
As you know from my previous blog how long scientist or engineer need to wait until his/her research could be commercialize, and it is not three months wait like a farmer, but sometime more than three years, or more than that.
Speak to this issue, I'm not going to blame the entrepreneur, people have their own way to live, but what I want to emphasize here is, how we could make the farmer to sell his food by himself, without the middle man.
Maybe it is hard to do, to let the scientist do the business things, like finding the investor, create the business organization, or do the marketing. It might not be the ultimate goal of the scientist to commercialize his/her products, or he couldn't do it by himself. Having a partner is not that bad, but to make it fair in this capitalized world is the thing that REQUIRED TO RECONSIDER.
I don't want some business man come up with the sentence like "I make this technology. I did this happen" blah blah blah...even it is the fact that the one who did things happen is not himself, but engineers.
The annual financial report from many huge companies report the budget in each year, only around 1% of the total outcome is for Research and Development section, and I'm quite sure that the engineers who work there earn a lot less than that.
As you know from my previous blog how long scientist or engineer need to wait until his/her research could be commercialize, and it is not three months wait like a farmer, but sometime more than three years, or more than that.
Speak to this issue, I'm not going to blame the entrepreneur, people have their own way to live, but what I want to emphasize here is, how we could make the farmer to sell his food by himself, without the middle man.
Maybe it is hard to do, to let the scientist do the business things, like finding the investor, create the business organization, or do the marketing. It might not be the ultimate goal of the scientist to commercialize his/her products, or he couldn't do it by himself. Having a partner is not that bad, but to make it fair in this capitalized world is the thing that REQUIRED TO RECONSIDER.
I don't want some business man come up with the sentence like "I make this technology. I did this happen" blah blah blah...even it is the fact that the one who did things happen is not himself, but engineers.
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