Most of big tech is funded by your retirement funds and other investment funds, NOT, the government.
They have government contracts, public and secret ones, but the rality here is:
YOU are funding big tech through your IRA, mutual funds, teachers retirement plans and so forth.
Big tech is making big profits. Their profits are not from free money from government, they are from business activity as a result of a large amount of investment being sunk into them by many many many groups. If I open up a 2 man graphic design firm and my main contracts are with local governments that account for 75% of my business, that doesn't make me publicly funded nor make my private property subject to expropriation by government.
What you just wrote is what communists believe and what they did to Russia in the late 1800s, eastern europe and china in the early 1900s and want to do here.
Please consider carefully your position on this.
You either have the right to your property, or you don't. There is no such thing as "you can own your house but one day the government can decide that your neighbour can move in on sundays because you mowe his lawn".
Wrong, big tech was birthed by government. As public companies now you might own shares in them through your IRA etc but their birth and their size were directly helped by government and now protected by government
I have a slightly different perspective.
Most of big tech is funded by your retirement funds and other investment funds, NOT, the government.
They have government contracts, public and secret ones, but the rality here is:
YOU are funding big tech through your IRA, mutual funds, teachers retirement plans and so forth.
Big tech is making big profits. Their profits are not from free money from government, they are from business activity as a result of a large amount of investment being sunk into them by many many many groups. If I open up a 2 man graphic design firm and my main contracts are with local governments that account for 75% of my business, that doesn't make me publicly funded nor make my private property subject to expropriation by government.
What you just wrote is what communists believe and what they did to Russia in the late 1800s, eastern europe and china in the early 1900s and want to do here.
Please consider carefully your position on this.
You either have the right to your property, or you don't. There is no such thing as "you can own your house but one day the government can decide that your neighbour can move in on sundays because you mowe his lawn".
Right?
Wrong, big tech was birthed by government. As public companies now you might own shares in them through your IRA etc but their birth and their size were directly helped by government and now protected by government
Do you even know how anything works?
Okay, let's play your fucking game. WHAT DID GOVERNMENT DO TO BIRTH BIG TECH?
Go.
I fucking dare you to try and make this argument. I want everyone to see this.
Do you?
It's not exactly secret:
https://qz.com/1145669/googles-true-origin-partly-lies-in-cia-and-nsa-research-grants-for-mass-surveillance/