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by throw10920 3 days ago
> Capitalism created the computers whose Soviet copies were Tetris' native platform, it made the languages Pajitnov used and the machines he ported it to. It incentivized people to bring Tetris to the rest of the world, and who knows, it might have spread on its own eventually, just for free, but maybe not.

Yeah, GP's claim here was kind of insane. It's trivial to go look up lists of the 100 biggest innovations of the past 100 years (or whatever) and 90-99% of them were capitalism.