I love how your article articulates the importance of having an idea. However, a major flaw of the idea economy lies with execution. Everybody can have an idea: the real difficulty comes when you are implementing the idea and face funding, technical, and regulation issues. By the time, you resolve all the small issues, you are already burned out and lose focus on your idea. I would even go further and argue that not everybody can thrive in the idea economy since it requires a certain personality type (ie. entrepreneurial) to drive changes in the status quo.

Now, I'm going to resteem this article simply because I feel that there tons of people who find themselves unable to fit in the "knowledge" based economy.

There's nothing with not knowing anything. All you need is an idea!