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Originally Posted by Frownland
You wouldn't have a concept of affordability without a centralized governmental currency, so government is actually the singlular reason why the internet and all that other techno junk exists. All hail the godking government for bringing us internet.
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I'll reiterate: unless it was commercialized, you would have never even had the opportunity to use this tech under any circumstances. Why? Because before this tech was commercialized, it was clunky to the point of being unusable by most people. When Bill Gates was a teenager, there were like two or three universities in the entire country with an actual UI to code with. You can thank companies like IBM and Microsoft for having something usable by a regular citizen, not the government. Prior to them, the idea of anyone even having a personal computer was a fantasy. There was never any drive from the U.S. government or any other country to make technology usable or consumable for regular people: those desires came from people outside of government.
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Originally Posted by elphenor
p sure this gets pointed out to you once a month but
the tech used to make the majority of commercial products (including personal computers) comes from government research
and then the reason you and I can afford said computers, has quite a lot to do with exploiting workers outside our borders
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I know I say this to you at least once a month, but you tend to be wrong or gloss over the actual point. "Government research" is just a another way of saying that they hire 3rd party people from various parts of the private sector to implement something that somebody non-technical thought of in the upper echelon of that particular decision making body of that country. That includes when they hire researchers or people with particular tech backgrounds. They go through the exact same process a serious company would go through, except with tons more regulations and much longer timetables compared to what private enterprise might develop in that same time period. There's nothing fundamentally more special about a government funded project versus what a company might do under the same conditions. That's why when the government does produce results, it's because they worked with the private sector in some capacity to do so.