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I am assuming that you don't care much for Silicon Valley, which was a creation of the Federal Government. https://steveblank.com/secret-history/ https://steve
by numair 11y ago
I am assuming that you don't care much for Silicon Valley, which was a creation of the Federal Government.
https://steveblank.com/secret-history/ https://steveblank.com/secret-history/
- randyrand 11y agoWhat a ridiculous statement. A tech hub would have happened with or without the ferderal government. Just like it has happened for countless other industries without the need of the government to do anything.
- sophacles 11y agoWhat industries happened without the government?
- randyrand 11y agoSex industry. Though that question isn't really relevant to the question of how industry hubs form.
- JoBrad 11y agoGreat example. An industry that has historically preyed on the unfortunate.
- sammydavis 11y agoI think it's hard to do argue that the federal government wasn't involved. Don't forget why they call them hookers, General Hooker was the source of the name during Civil War and it wasn't B.C. he used them himself.
- JoBrad 11y agoThat's not a true story [1], although you're not the first person I've heard it from. The sex industry was thriving well before the US government, or any other government around today, however. And it would be very hard to argue that the US government has ever been formally "involved" with the sex industry, except as a regulatory presence. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Hooker#Final_years_and_legacy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Hooker#Final_years_and_...
- massysett 11y agoAnything other than build infrastructure, educate children, coin money, provide public safety, deter foreign invaders, etc.
- randyrand 11y agoThough really we should be crediting the earth for creating the tech industry, for without the earth neither the government nor the tech industry could have formed. Actually we should credit the sun. For without the sun we would have no earth. Wait, wait a minute! This line of reasoning seems ridiculous! Why? Its the same reason we don't credit the government for every accomplishment ever made. We focus on the key players. Could the government have been a key player here? Perhaps. But your line of reasoning is not the reason.
- cbHXBY1D 11y agoSilicon Valley's origins are deeply entwined with the military industrial complex and federal money. To argue otherwise is historical revisionism. William Shockley is credited with making Silicon Valley what it is today. He was a federal researcher who hired eight other federal researchers. [1] They then created Fairchild Semiconductor which developed transistors for the aerospace industry. Look up the history of Shockley, Noyce, Fairchild, Intel. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traitorous_eight https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traitorous_eight
- massysett 11y agoAll you have proven is that it would be equally ridiculous to say "a tech hub would have happened with or without the sun" or "a tech hub would have happened with or without the earth." Though one may not credit the federal government for the creation of an industry, it is ridiculous to say that such an industry would exist without the government's existence. Govennment is a necessary prerequisite even if it deserves no "credit".