Yes, the US government through NASA, Los Alamos, US Corps of Engineers, and many others has developed military technology with some civilian applications as well. Probably 100 fold what USSR and China have developed
Thats the point. Governments suck at developing things that are not things like multistage rockets. By the way, the space rockets, like to launch a communications satellite, are a US invention.
I don’t subscribe to the “great man” theory. But, it is clear that men with big ideas have impacted the world. Should they benefit from their impact. Yes!
Should Musk be as wealthy as he is and pay the low taxes he pays? No!
Tax the wealthy progressively, but keep the incentives for technological advancement
Give me some examples of Chinese and USSR innovations that changed the world
Just to be clear, Jeff Bezos started Amazon, coded, packaged, managed inventory from his garage
Bill Gates and Steve Jobs were both engineers and coded and/or designed their initial products themselves, while in college
Look up Sergei Brin, Zuckerberg, and Musk. Same story. Started their companies, coding themselves while in college
You cannot have it both ways. You can’t receive billions or trillions of dollars in technological and social benefits without giving billions back.
As an aside, Russian and Chinese billionaires were chosen because of their proximity to Putin in one case and to the CCP in the other. Show me the ground breaking innovations their companies have produced. They only copy what was invented before
The title is missleading. To be fair the cameraman was almost 30, ancient by the Lama’s standards. A 7 year old in attendance got a sloppy kiss though. Balance
Sorry, but developing an idea that changes the way the world works is exactly that.
#1 reason why MRI’s, PC’s, biotech, nanotech, AI was all developed in the West is because you can make profits. Almost no groundbreaking innovations have come out of USSR (Russia) or China. Those guys are good at copying and also have billionaires, lots of them
The problem is not that there is a path to be a billionaire, the problem is that they are not getting taxed. Governments need to make billionaires pay their fair share. Period
Guys, chill. There is a perfectly reasonable explanation. It was his pool cleaner that hung the flag and did not let him know