Put differently, wealth was more likely to be hatched from computer code, a television series, a patent, a financial instrument. King Knowledge even determined the fruit of the soil. Take Monsanto, which produces the seeds that account for 80 percent of all corn and 90 percent of all soybeans grown in the United States. What Monsanto possesses, what it ferociously hoards, is the genetic traits of these seeds. Its comparative advantage isn’t factories, but laboratories.
