In a Capitalist economy, no. If there is nobody to buy the goods then what is to fund the production? In a Communist economy it could survive. In the soviet union many things were produced that there wasn't really demand for, simply because everything was directed by the government and producers were told what to … Read more

Many people mistakedly think it means the King in French. This is wrong. It translates in to "The Source" in Afrikaans. It is not clear that this is where the name comes from though and it may have a different meaning if it originally comes from somewhere else.