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> innovation is exclusively the domain of the private sector due to the competitive pressures of markets.

You are able to read this very comment (and write your own) in large part specifically because of public-sector innovation.



Certainly a good point, but largely overstated. It's fundamentally incorrect to act as if the private sector didn't do the bulk of the development of computing and the internet itself, commercializing and evolving the software and hardware, and running the physical fiber optic lines.

But thank god for the US department of Y combinator for taking a risk on all those evil private startups so they'd be able to support this government website.


It's also fundamentally incorrect to act as if the private sector would've done very many of those things without extensive cooperation with and guidance/mandate from the public sector.




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