Tell HN: Don't root for WFH, it might destroy well-paying jobs

Re:Tell HN: Don't root for WFH, it might destroy well-paying... by adventured on Thursday July 01, 2021 @01:28AM (#27696508)

The US more than earned the advantage. It built half of the global tech industry from the ground up.

Shall I begin listing all the consequential technologies that were invented in the US in the post WW2 era? It's an exceptionally long, comprehensive list, spanning from the GUI to the router to the microprocessor to Unix to the transistor to the LED and LCD to DSP to ethernet to RAM to hypertext to streaming media to the digital modem to the PC modem to the cable modem to the modern laser to the supercomputer to the personal computer & mobile computer to the PDA to digital graphics to virtual reality to USB to the cellphone & smartphone to the IBM hard drive & solid state storage to fiber optics to email to GPS to the relational database to Java & C & C++ & JavaScript & Basic to TCP/IP to the spreadsheet to the digital camera to the lithium ion battery all the way down to the mouse. And a zillion more things.

To pretend that the US didn't earn its advantage, is plain bunk. The entire tech industry rides on the shoulders of what the US built up over the past six decades.

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Re:Tell HN: Don't root for WFH, it might destroy well-paying... by subtra3t on Thursday July 01, 2021 @02:16AM (#27696745)

That way, the entire world owes India for inventing 0.

Past inventions don't count as brownie points in the present

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Re:Tell HN: Don't root for WFH, it might destroy well-paying... by wibblewobble123 on Thursday July 01, 2021 @09:44AM (#27698964)

C++ was invented by Bjarne Stroustrup who is Danish. But otherwise your list is mostly accurate.

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