Computers: product of the private or the public sector?

a response to confederalsocialist

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Education

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• computers

[DackBev]

Isn't it ironic that mr1001nights is from a country where government is is much larger public sector versus public sector? In the U.S. research is predominantly by private funds. If he is in favor of a system where government forces the people to invest in things, then why did he come here?

[mr1001nights]

Actually, as I prove in this video, most research in the US is done by the state sector. You reveal your totalitarian ideology by assuming the illegitimacy of living in a country where one wants to change things. I want decisions regarding allocation to be implemented in a free environment, not in a totalitarian one dominated by wage slavery and bosses/investors who use the violence of the state to make money without having to work (at the expense of the workers who produce everything)

[Plutonwolf]

Well expressed and dead accurate.

[yeahwotevaman]

I didn't notice a 'preference of the state' in this video, just facts about the development of computers. It is a fact that the main factor driving the early development of computer technology was the military.

[sugarcanegray]

absolutely spot on. it still makes me laugh when people claim any kind of progress can be attributed to the private sector - the far far majority of scientific research is conducted through public funding. this can be highlighted in the time it takes for new technologies to get to the market place.

[luvcheney1]

@id1337x Great! Let me know when it overtakes Microsoft.

[yaakovda]

The public sector is a fictitious entity. What you really mean to say, is that the government robbed money from the citizens, then paid employees to develop computers.

Well, those employees would have succeeded achieving the same achievements while working for private entrepreneurs.

[HexTest]

@mr1001nights - The United States Postal Service was the original carrier of mail throughout most of American history (especially in it's prior POD form), so that must mean that private carriers of mail can't possible exist right?

[id1337x]

I agree wholeheartedly that computers and the internet were developed in the public sector. Another really good example which you might consider using is Linux. It was developed by Linus Torvalds in a state-funded university in Finland, and since then it has been released to the public so that anyone in the world can contribute to it. Linux seems to make a very good example of Public Sector development, and right now I am typing this using Linux.

[Chrisnoscrub047]

What came first the State supported society or the Stateless society?

[seigneurvoland666]

lol your defense strategy is funny, kind of rediculous, and genious. You always point out the 'claims' that have not been backed up by (specific) evidence. Reasonable i guess, it works. the rediculous part is that you see an error cause of the lack of evidence addressed to the claim and ontop of it you question all the other plausible possibilities that could replace this claim and ultimately defeat it.

[RSFO]

Neural network is in fact the very first internet

[DackBev]

(take out the space in "stata b" above). The title of the statistics is "Research and Development (R&D) Expenditures by Source and

Objective: 1970 to 2007"

[DackBev]

This is why the U.S. came to have such a high standard of living, compared to your country. Freedom works. Statism doesn't. Government (central authority) cannot possibly allocate resources more efficiently than the market.