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Re:Economic Inequality by twoodfin on Sunday January 03, 2016 @07:52PM (#10833424)
That doesn't answer my question. After all, you can use the same argument to say all of computing depends on governments needing more accurate ballistic tables.

My question was: In building the Internet we use today, how much money was spent by governments, and how much by private industry?

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Re:Economic Inequality by karlheinz on Sunday January 03, 2016 @10:07PM (#10833806)
I'm not the right person to answer this question.

My initial comment was an attempt to illustrate the fact that startup funders and VC's that get rich don't make innovations in a vacuum. They rely on a complex network of global labour, government funding, university research and the entire history of human knowledge.

Therefor I don't think funders and capital owners should feel so certain about their privilege to extract enormous amounts of private wealth for the prize of rising income inequality.

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