• MeowZedong
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    6 months ago

    Lol, you really think they come up with the ideas in biotech and nanotech?? Public grants fund the ideas of underpaid workers in public universities, the workers develop the technology, and then the principle investigator (PI, the boss who often had little actual contribution to the idea and work, but helped write the grant that originally funded the idea, takes that idea and with the university parents it.

    Then the PI makes a spin-off, private company using that idea that they didn’t come up with and didn’t develop and that was funded by the public and they hire business and legal types to make bank on this idea. The actual people who did all the innovative work are lucky just to be recognized for the work they put into the technology after it hits the market.

    And it’s not just happening in biotech, it happens in other fields too! All of the technologies you mentioned were made by the public sector, not the private sector. The private steals those ideas (via legal loopholes) and patents, then profits off of them.

    So sure, they’re 700,000 times smarter if smarter equals exploitative fuck-heads.

    As to socialist countries not innovating, have you even looked at China lately? That’s ignoring even the basic innovation of developing societies that go beyond capitalism. What this amounts to is an old racist trope and a general lack of education about how technology transfers with China operate. Companies having China produce their products sign-off rights for China to make and use their technology as part of the compensation for production, they don’t steal technology, they are given/buy this technology via their labor.

    Have you even looked at these processes or do you just repeat the drivel you are told by these cheats? For over ten years I’ve experienced this shit first-hand in biotech. You are wrong.