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> all the things that aren't capitalism absolutely scupper technological progress This is wildly wrong. Technological progress has literally existed for thousa

> all the things that aren't capitalism absolutely scupper technological progress This is wildly wrong. Technological progress has literally existed for thousands of years before capitalism. Even under capitalism, technological progress often happens in universities with government money, often for military or claimed military purposes. For example, everything to do with the base of computer science has been created in academia and the military sector, before it was donated by government to private corporations.

roenxi 6y ago
> Technological progress has literally existed for thousands of years before capitalism. And it moved veeeeeeeery slowly [0]. We had two ages named after a metal and one after rock. Post capitalism there have been Space ages, various revolutions, computers, etc, etc. > For example, everything to do with the base of computer science has been created in academia and the military sector, before it was donated by government to private corporations. And, again, if they hadn't handed it over to the capitalists there would still be all of a few tens of thousands of people using the internet to swap academic papers and no more. Everyone made the right decisions on that one. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_technology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_technology