| richardhutnik said:
You are posting this on the Internet. The Internet got its birth as a government initiative founded by the Department of Defense, to build a communications network that could withstand a nuclear war. The private sector didn't produce an Internet. The private sector gave birth to the likes of AOL, Prodigy and Compuserve. All of these fell to the wayside by an entity that was birthed by a government initiative. Nothing the private sector came up with rivals this. Same could be said about the likes of Spain sponsoring Christopher Columbus discovering the new world. Private enterprise didn't do this. GPS is another government invention. None in the private sector produced this. Libraries only exist now, due to government funding. Large initiatives which benefit society almost never come about strictly from private sector involvement. There are things that the private sector can't even get near at all, because it isn't in the interest of the private sector to do it. Later on, once established, it is entirely possible for the private sector to take it over. But the public sector is the one that kicks it off. |
You're asking me to rewrite history. Fact is, we have no idea whether these things would have happened with or without Government, or whether similar alternatives would have emerged. We also do not know all of the technologies that we could have been enjoying today, if the private sector had not been stifled.
