• uis@lemm.ee
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    1
    ·
    edit-2
    21 hours ago

    Capitalism’s industrial revolution did not happen in a bubble. It did not invent science that allowed the industrial revolution, it took advantage of existing discoveries to take a very dehumanizing route to wrong destination.

    Also USSR was at least 15 nations.

    • nexguy@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      19 hours ago

      Yes capitalism did not make all scientific discoveries but it did use them to make more discoveries at a vastly faster rate.

      • uis@lemm.ee
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        16 hours ago

        If you ignore fact that almost all fundamental research was done or paid by goverment. Where is private CERN? Private ISS? Heck, where computers would be if not for brittish, american and soviet state research programs? Even companies like Intel were created by goverment funding.

        • nexguy@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          1
          ·
          52 minutes ago

          How many civilian contractors were hired by CERN and others and how many bidders did they take before deciding which to take. Did scientists volunteer or were they paid by grants. Where did the government funding come from? Taxes from citizen’s income. How much of the technology used in these projects was built on tech invented by public/private companies?