save the world w/300 bucks

Stepped off the treadmill to send this, from Friedman in the NYT:

"This isn’t complicated. In today’s wired world, the most important
economic competition is no longer between countries or companies. The
most important economic competition is actually between you and your
own imagination. Because what your kids imagine, they can now act on
farther, faster, cheaper than ever before — as individuals. Today,
just about everything is becoming a commodity, except imagination,
except the ability to spark new ideas.

If I just have the spark of an idea now, I can get a designer in
Taiwan to design it. I can get a factory in China to produce a
prototype. I can get a factory in Vietnam to mass manufacture it. I
can use Amazon.com to handle fulfillment. I can use freelancer.com to
find someone to do my logo and manage by backroom. And I can do all
this at incredibly low prices. The one thing that is not a commodity
and never will be is that spark of an idea."

Link to full article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/21/opinion/21friedman.html?ref=opinion