>Liberalism was the greatest innovation we ever came up with as a species Pottery, agriculture, control over the electromagnetic field, basket weaving, LANGUAG

>Liberalism was the greatest innovation we ever came up with as a species Pottery, agriculture, control over the electromagnetic field, basket weaving, LANGUAGE, formalized society, written language, MATH, metalworking etc and you posit UNREGULATED MARKETS as the greatest innovation? NONE of the above monumental achievements of humanity are even remotely related to people being able to do business with slightly less regulation and slightly fewer taxes. Nearly all human innovation has occurred when being murdered by your king for petty reasons was the norm. Integrated circuits as a commodity mostly exists because the US air force wanted it to. None of that is about liberalism. The Navy trained up hundreds of thousands of people essentially to the level of electrical engineers, basic information sciences, and computers and computation and electric fields for WW2, to improve radar and targeting, including building and deploying a networked computer system for automated fleet defense and intercept tasking in the fifties, and then these people are mostly just let go, to spread their paid for knowledge to anyone in the commercial space, no non-competes. Wouldn't you know it, training up a bulk of people in a brand new but important field, with minimal cost to them, and then just freely giving that away reaped insane rewards for the next 50 years!