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Anything other than build infrastructure, educate children, coin money, provide public safety, deter foreign invaders, etc.
by massysett 11y ago
Anything 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".