> This essay makes a fallacy case, "it is this way, therefore it must be this way". It takes a lot of liberties with evidence to come to a crazy conclusion. "A

> This essay makes a fallacy case, "it is this way, therefore it must be this way". It takes a lot of liberties with evidence to come to a crazy conclusion. "A trend doesn't make a law" is a better argument when the trend under discussion isn't many decades or centuries old, and it's even better when your counter-hypothesis isn't an anecdotally grounded commonsense expectation. As for the rest of your post, I don't think the claim is that every facet of government or everything that government does is innovative, or even that the innovative things are all-around good. Yeah, local government and state owned oil companies are usually going to be the pits. That doesn't mean a lot of next-level technology isn't coming out of spy agencies and military aerospace.