Gregory's Server@mekkaokereke @adamgreenfield like tesla could not have opened a factory without a loan from Obama’s DoE or the basic structure of the internet depended on DARPA or …
There is no industrial capitalism without publicly funded R&D - back sice basic machine tools came from theUK navy yard in the 1700s
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@vy @mekkaokereke @adamgreenfield we could also look at how the whigs used public money to fund the creation of the Erie Canal and say New York City became the epicenter it is today directly because of using public money for internal improvements @vy @mekkaokereke @adamgreenfield yep! mariana mazzucato is good on this topic https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariana_Mazzucato |
@vy @mekkaokereke @adamgreenfield we could go back to thomas paine giving all the money he made selling Common Sense to George Washington, who couldnt otherwise afford to start his army, and say the US wouldnt exist if it werent for one of the inventors of socialism