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Government also developed or funded: The Internet, fracking, most academic research ... and the educations of everybody reading this, to at least some extent.
by hackuser 10y ago
Government also developed or funded: The Internet, fracking, most academic research ... and the educations of everybody reading this, to at least some extent.
- eli_gottlieb 10y agoWhat's amazing is that we actually have to remind people of this. Every large, powerful, cohesive society in history has had a centralized state of some sort. Societies that don't tend to get conquered by armies ranging from bandits to systematic invaders, or to get balkanized into wasteful little feudal domains.