Capitalists love wanking on about innovation, but it always ends up being innovations in great new ways to raise the top line, lower the bottom line, and make things worse for everyone else.
A lot of the time it ends up being that, but for a counterexample you have modern electronic devices. I mean the laptop I’m using to type this certainly wasn’t developed by a government grant. And then we have massive elephants in the room like, you know, the steam engine.
Capitalists love wanking on about innovation, but it always ends up being innovations in great new ways to raise the top line, lower the bottom line, and make things worse for everyone else.
A lot of the time it ends up being that, but for a counterexample you have modern electronic devices. I mean the laptop I’m using to type this certainly wasn’t developed by a government grant. And then we have massive elephants in the room like, you know, the steam engine.
A loooot of the research necessary to make our cutting edge chips still comes from academia
Modern computers wouldnt exist if it wasnt for the massive funding from the military and NASA.
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