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First of all, the technology industry itself is not just exclusive to the US. Samsung is south Korean, Nintendo is from Japan, Siemens is from Germany, ASML is
by est31 7y ago
First of all, the technology industry itself is not just exclusive to the US. Samsung is south Korean, Nintendo is from Japan, Siemens is from Germany, ASML is from the Netherlands. All of these are highly technological companies, with Nintendo having been at the frontiers of technology since decades. But of course, Silicon Valley is unique with its high concentration of hightech companies. This has multiple reasons:
* The US federal government provided massive amounts of funding, especially in earlier years. Oracle for example was jumpstarted by the CIA, an US federal agency.
* Economically, the US is highly developed, and has a gigantic market with over 200 million people who all speak one language. The EU didn't even have the unified market since a few years ago, and there is still inconsistency regarding the language. China does have both a more or less consistent legal regime as well as a consistent language due to their past efforts to teach their population a common language (this is non-zero effort as Chinese dialects are so different to each other, probably if it weren't for political influence you'd classify them as several languages).
* California in specific has at-will employment laws meaning a start up can be wrapped up quickly without having to pay large sums of money to employees.
* The US federal government maintains a large spying apparatus which has been increased massively after the 2001 terror attacks. They don't just use it for evil terrorists. It has been confirmed multiple times that they perform industrial espionage against companies in western countries, supposed allies of the US. The US government then gives the results of the espionage to industrial partners.
* Nowadays there are of course massive network effects.
- creato 7y ago> The US federal government maintains a large spying apparatus which has been increased massively after the 2001 terror attacks. They don't just use it for evil terrorists. It has been confirmed multiple times that they perform industrial espionage against companies in western countries, supposed to be allies of the US. The US government then gives the results of the espionage to industrial partners. Specifically which company has benefited from industrial espionage in a way that can even begin to answer the question posed by the OP?
- est31 7y agoOf course, this is not the sole reason why the US industry is where it is today. It's rather one of many reasons. The effect is much smaller than, say, soviet espionage on US technology was. But here you have some links on US industrial espionage on German companies: https://www.windpowermonthly.com/article/960011/trans-atlantic-espionage-claimed-german-wind-company https://www.windpowermonthly.com/article/960011/trans-atlant... https://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/german-firms-fear-industrial-espionage-after-snowden-leaks-a-912624.html https://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/german-firms-fe...
- jonnybgood 7y agoThose links don’t give any evidence of industrial espionage on German companies. One even claims those no proof of it.
- clhodapp 7y agoI want to make what I hope is not an offensive inquiry. As a native (American) English speaker, both of your uses of the word "since" look wrong to me. In my reading, the first one should be "for" and the second should be "until". This is not the first time I've come across jarring uses of "since" online. What I'm wondering is: What is your background? Are you also a native English speaker from a different region? If so, what region? If not, what is your native language and is the English "since" deceptively similar to a word in it? To try to make it less likely that this comment makes you feel bad, I will close by making the (true) statement that I found your comment to be interesting and insightful and your usages of "since" didn't hurt my comprehension at all, they just sounded weird.