Investors make production possible. These are rough numbers for an expansion at a midsize (total value around 1/2B) industrial firm I was involved with. This is heavy industry so actual labor producing a physical product. Plant buildout was priced at around 75M. Operations require a floating budget of an intake of 6 figures in feed material *every day*. Facilities cost and personnel and facility in the upper 5 figures a day. *Investment* s how you organize all those resources so that labor can actually result in production. Deciding that the project is not only valuable but profitable (ie valuable enough to other people to warrant it) is how you makee the labor and production happen.
