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A comment on Adam Smith and Inequality (2014). Parent comment

Re:Adam Smith and Inequality (2014) by ceejayoz on Sunday September 12, 2021 @07:32PM (#28506139)
Modern phones wouldn’t be nearly as useful without ARPANET or CERN’s WWW, as a start.
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Re:Adam Smith and Inequality (2014) by WalterBright on Sunday September 12, 2021 @07:50PM (#28506274)
Many other digital networks existed. I know they've been forgotten, but pretending it took a government to create a digital protocol is ignoring all that.

Whenever anyone had two computers, the first thing they'd invent next is a digital protocol to connect them.

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Re:Adam Smith and Inequality (2014) by ceejayoz on Sunday September 12, 2021 @08:34PM (#28506582)
Won’t that be your response to any examples, then?
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