The scale of wealth/information transfer probably hasn't closely been accounted for, and is a fascinating story. https://foreignpolicy.com/2012/07/09/nsa-chief

The scale of wealth/information transfer probably hasn't closely been accounted for, and is a fascinating story. https://foreignpolicy.com/2012/07/09/nsa-chief-cybercrime-constitutes-the-greatest-transfer-of-wealth-in-history/ https://foreignpolicy.com/2012/07/09/nsa-chief-cybercrime-co... https://www.infosecinstitute.com/resources/general-security/cyber-espionage-the-greatest-transfer-of-wealth-in-history/ https://www.infosecinstitute.com/resources/general-security/... https://www.usitc.gov/publications/332/pub4199.pdf https://www.usitc.gov/publications/332/pub4199.pdf https://securitypolicylaw.syr.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Lotrionte_Countering_State_Sponsored_Cyber_Economic_Espionage.pdf https://securitypolicylaw.syr.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/06... America's petro dollar funds research by arming countries that pull oil from the ground, research that is then acquired, emulated, and iterated upon. Who's the crook in that story? The people robbing the earth of a natural resource? The people holding the world hostage forcing them to use their financial system? The people taking scientific knowledge they didn't "pay for." While a significant portion of the techy American population in their younger years was against America's strengthen of intellectual property rights, while they were focused on art being locked down, were ignoring how much of America's strength in the world is propped up by claiming America owns ideas, information, and knowledge, that others have to buy from them.