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You are not wrong but also forgot the reasons…

Most stuff you cheer here is basically a few tech giants out of Silicon Valley. The science kickstart for all that came from a bunch of scientists (like Von neumann) you got when winning WW2 from europe. In a time when many potential competitors were still rebuilding from ruins.

This is over now, europeans tend to no longer go to the us but still produce excellent scientists, Asian countries catched up and both continents start to leave the US behind in most aspects as a desirable place to live, except for 2 things: Military power and billionaires.

Enjoy your 5 tech giants while they last, but also keep in mind that these are international now and draw from nonamerican intellectual power also.



> The science kickstart for all that came from a bunch of scientists (like Von neumann) you got when winning WW2 from europe.

Don't forget that the USians would all be speaking Japanese if it wasn't for the technology they "borrowed" from the British.

American "RADAR" was a laughable non-starter until they got shown how to make magnetrons by Randall and Boot.




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