It's really dependent on what you're talking about. It takes massive amounts of money to do the really long-term research that lays the foundations for much of

It's really dependent on what you're talking about. It takes massive amounts of money to do the really long-term research that lays the foundations for much of our private enterprise. We wouldn't have such a fruitful startup scene for private individuals to attempt to innovate with reasonable low upfront costs if not for decades of development in our computing and communications industries, much of which was financed with long-term state investment. How soon we forget.