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This is not surprising - the west has some serious university investment to do if it wants to catch up!
There's much more to it than that. If you invent a brilliant new thing that everyone will want... how are you going to make it at scale, at a price people will pay for it? The cheapest, quickest, most efficient way by far would be to make it in China. Sure, maybe you could build the factory and distribution networks in the west, and maybe persuade investors to let you do that, but China will imitate and undercut you astonishing quickly.
Sorry best we can do is bank bailouts and a depression.
LOL… “Smart people don’t like me,” said Trump. Also, this administration has sped up brain drain like none other (because of stupid, hostile policies — toxic nationalism shit) in our lifetimes.
It's funny how they poured money into it during the Cold War, but now it's all grifter startups and shit funding lol