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by eeronen
1657 days ago
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> China stole every single thing it had from the US. They have developed almost zero technology. (You could very nearly say the same for Europe, though they are less socialist than China and so have developed some things on their own - barely). What the hell are you talking about? Are you really saying all that R&D spending in other countries is going towards copy-pasting stuff made in the US? https://data.oecd.org/chart/6yu7 |
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Yes. I can barely think of any examples to the contrary. 90% of technology being used around the world today was developed in the US. More importantly, R&D money spent by governments usually amounts to absolutely nothing. R&D spent by private companies can be ground breaking, or it can just be a nonsense tax break, or it can be spent learning to reproduce what others have already invented.
So simply looking at R&D spending is pretty useless. Instead look at the results.