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by setpatchaddress 1973 days ago
Available evidence suggests otherwise.

Tesla and SpaceX probably wouldn't exist if not for government bootstrapping. https://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-hy-musk-subsidies-201...

Further back, modern computing / internetworking wouldn't exist without military and DARPA cash from the government. Read any book on the history of these.

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There's a difference between the government paying for or subsidizing a needed service and the government bailing out a specific company after that company has failed to compete in the market. Successful industrial policy, like the sort South Korea practiced, requires backing the winners not rescuing the losers.