On: Japan's push to make all research open access

[immibis]

The government invented the internet.

[jrhey → immibis]

Some life saving pharmaceuticals, automobiles tech, general consumer communications and entertainment tech, all come from capitalists trying to be the first to market to profit. The sheer amount of technological leaps our generation alone has seen was all pretty much for profit. You wouldn’t observe the same rate if it was all purely driven by governments.

[waihtis → immibis]

with money that came from ......?

[immibis → waihtis]

Nonsensical question. You invent things with brainpower, not money.

[waihtis → immibis]

Try going without food for a month and see how many novel inventions you can make. See, even thoughts require participation in the capital markets.

[CatWChainsaw → waihtis]

DARPA? Which is government??