People show off iPhones as the success of Capitalism, not realizing it'd be a brick without the internet – which is built off Free Software.
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The OS's, server software, databases and tools used to build them. Private property was required for none of it, and only tried to stop it.
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So remember next time some Capitalist brags about their toy: the hard work was done before they got there, through anti-capitialist systems.
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Financed through public funding.
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Capitalism didn't make the iPhone. Your taxes did. https://www.economist.com/news/business/21584307-new-book-points-out-big-role-governments-play-creating-innovative-businesses …pic.twitter.com/J56NgwKadN
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Then how come the communists and socialists didn’t invent the internet but only those living in decadent capitalist countries?
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Check https://aeon.co/essays/how-the-soviets-invented-the-internet-and-why-it-didn-t-work … tl;dr? They tried but «behaving like competitive capitalists» made it fail.
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@existentialcoms brags about anti-capitalism: the lacking argument was based on a very particular interpretation of terms.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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The same can be said about gas, electric, water, sewage, and everything else that makes our lives better...
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Pretty much everything in the iPhone was government funded.https://www.ted.com/talks/mariana_mazzucato_government_investor_risk_taker_innovator/up-next …
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OK, the state makes sense as a long-term investor. But who will be the long-term investor in state-less and money-less communist utopia?
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