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  • ynazuma@lemmy.worldtoCommunism@lemmy.mlProtestation
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    1 month ago

    Yes, the US government through NASA, Los Alamos, US Corps of Engineers, and many others has developed military technology with some civilian applications as well. Probably 100 fold what USSR and China have developed

    Thats the point. Governments suck at developing things that are not things like multistage rockets. By the way, the space rockets, like to launch a communications satellite, are a US invention.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_H._Goddard

    You gave no examples

    I don’t subscribe to the “great man” theory. But, it is clear that men with big ideas have impacted the world. Should they benefit from their impact. Yes!

    Should Musk be as wealthy as he is and pay the low taxes he pays? No!

    Tax the wealthy progressively, but keep the incentives for technological advancement

    We have no better system. Facts


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    1 month ago

    Fair enough

    Give me some examples of Chinese and USSR innovations that changed the world

    Just to be clear, Jeff Bezos started Amazon, coded, packaged, managed inventory from his garage

    Bill Gates and Steve Jobs were both engineers and coded and/or designed their initial products themselves, while in college

    Look up Sergei Brin, Zuckerberg, and Musk. Same story. Started their companies, coding themselves while in college

    You cannot have it both ways. You can’t receive billions or trillions of dollars in technological and social benefits without giving billions back.

    As an aside, Russian and Chinese billionaires were chosen because of their proximity to Putin in one case and to the CCP in the other. Show me the ground breaking innovations their companies have produced. They only copy what was invented before

    Facts

    Now you give relevant examples