The US was one of the the leading inventors of the industrial revolution among nations and there's no evidence to suggest that the US stole more from Europe than Europe stole from the US leading up to the 20th century.
People never provide more than a tiny number of examples while making that outlandish claim (that the US became a superpower heavily in part due to technology piracy). Which stacks against the vast scale of the US economy over time and its gigantic demonstrated inventiveness.
By the time the US economy was the size of China, it had already given the world an absurd number of prominent technologies and scientific achievements. That happened in part due to the renowned productivity of the US university system, which the world has been trying to copy since WW2.
China has given the world what compared to Apollo, the Internet, the transistor, microprocessor, GPU, Hubble, GPS, powered flight, or cracking the human genome? Nothing, crickets.
How about something comparable to inventing the first video game, which is courtesy of the US? Nope.
All that economic output, where's their Internet equivalent contribution?
> China has given the world what compared to Apollo, the Internet, the transistor, microprocessor, GPU, Hubble, GPS, powered flight, or cracking the human genome?
Paper, the compass, gunpowder, paper money, porcelain, tea, and a bunch of other stuff.
China was poor and rural in recent times, so it wasn't at the forefront of technological development, but now it's back at the forefront. Just to give one example, China develops some of the world's most advanced batteries nowadays.
You're making an extreme claim without extreme amounts of evidence to back it up.
Even if one were to buy into your claim, you ignored the further, rather critical point.
By the time the US was the size of China economically, it had already given the world a vast number of prominent contributions in the realm of technology and science. Where is China's equivalent with all that economic output?
The center of the CRISPR revolution is in Boston, not China. The center of the mRNA revolution is in the US and Europe, not China.
Even Tesla fled to the US, where he did most of his work; by intent he did not want to be in Europe. If the industrial revolution was powered by one man, it was that one and he didn't do it in Europe.
Well sometimes it's fun to rattle chains so let's continue the argument.
Tesla only moved to the US in 1884. This article is talking about events that happened 70 years before, even before the civil war, when half of the US economy was cotton farming.
You still haven't demonstrated the industry isn't based on IP theft :)
The US was one of the the leading inventors of the industrial revolution among nations and there's no evidence to suggest that the US stole more from Europe than Europe stole from the US leading up to the 20th century.
People never provide more than a tiny number of examples while making that outlandish claim (that the US became a superpower heavily in part due to technology piracy). Which stacks against the vast scale of the US economy over time and its gigantic demonstrated inventiveness.
By the time the US economy was the size of China, it had already given the world an absurd number of prominent technologies and scientific achievements. That happened in part due to the renowned productivity of the US university system, which the world has been trying to copy since WW2.
China has given the world what compared to Apollo, the Internet, the transistor, microprocessor, GPU, Hubble, GPS, powered flight, or cracking the human genome? Nothing, crickets.
How about something comparable to inventing the first video game, which is courtesy of the US? Nope.
All that economic output, where's their Internet equivalent contribution?