It’s amazing what happens when you just steal innovation from the rest of the world and are aided by a cabal of globalist treason merchants called politicians selling out their entire civilisation for a quick buck.
In the US he is known as the father of American factory system. In Britain he was known as "Slater the Traitor", because he stole their IP and brought it to the Americas.
In a sense I agree with you, there is definitely stealing involved. At the same time I offer you a different POV.
Imagine you are a parent of a meritorious child, above average student you may say. You know that your child will grow more if he gets access to the books of the nearby library. But you can't get the books because the library is controlled by elites and denying access (or asking higher price) to you because you are a peasant. What will you do to solve the issue minimizing the damage?
If people put to a back in the wall situation thousands pages of moral teachings becomes mute.
This is a false analogy. It's not because they're peasants oppressed by the elite it's because they're aggressive opponents to freedom. It's absolutely about morality but you're on the wrong side of the argument.
A lot of people on that side would beg to disagree with your characterization. The British characterized Sam Slater as a traitor. What's right or what's wrong more often than not depends on which side you belong to.
"globalist" is frequently (typically?) a dog whistle (especially alongside the word "cabal"), it's worth eliminating from your vocabulary if you want to be taken seriously by people who recognize it, and I feel like your claim wouldn't meaningfully suffer from its lack.
What word do you prefer to describe the class of powerful people who aren't particularly loyal to any nation yet have extensive financial interests in (exploiting) them?
I don't really feel the need to specify which powerful people that have extensive financial interests in exploiting nations are or are not particularly loyal to one nation in particular, but I guess you could go with "rootless cosmopolitan elites", "smirking merchants", or even just "The Illuminati".
If you're referring to a specific, discrete group of people, you could just name them instead of using a laundry list of questionable adjectives. But that wouldn't imply a global cabal, and so you couldn't oh so subtly and inconspicuously point fingers at an ethnic and religious minority.
The entire human civilization is built upon one group of people stealing what another group of people invented, then inventing something themselves and someone else steals their invention etc.
Patents and attempts to protect them is a relatively new conception, and it's not so easy to tell if it was a good thing for humankind as a whole or not.
The US was one of the the leading inventors of the industrial revolution among nations and there's no evidence to suggest that the US stole more from Europe than Europe stole from the US leading up to the 20th century.
People never provide more than a tiny number of examples while making that outlandish claim (that the US became a superpower heavily in part due to technology piracy). Which stacks against the vast scale of the US economy over time and its gigantic demonstrated inventiveness.
By the time the US economy was the size of China, it had already given the world an absurd number of prominent technologies and scientific achievements. That happened in part due to the renowned productivity of the US university system, which the world has been trying to copy since WW2.
China has given the world what compared to Apollo, the Internet, the transistor, microprocessor, GPU, Hubble, GPS, powered flight, or cracking the human genome? Nothing, crickets.
How about something comparable to inventing the first video game, which is courtesy of the US? Nope.
All that economic output, where's their Internet equivalent contribution?
> China has given the world what compared to Apollo, the Internet, the transistor, microprocessor, GPU, Hubble, GPS, powered flight, or cracking the human genome?
Paper, the compass, gunpowder, paper money, porcelain, tea, and a bunch of other stuff.
China was poor and rural in recent times, so it wasn't at the forefront of technological development, but now it's back at the forefront. Just to give one example, China develops some of the world's most advanced batteries nowadays.
You're making an extreme claim without extreme amounts of evidence to back it up.
Even if one were to buy into your claim, you ignored the further, rather critical point.
By the time the US was the size of China economically, it had already given the world a vast number of prominent contributions in the realm of technology and science. Where is China's equivalent with all that economic output?
The center of the CRISPR revolution is in Boston, not China. The center of the mRNA revolution is in the US and Europe, not China.
Even Tesla fled to the US, where he did most of his work; by intent he did not want to be in Europe. If the industrial revolution was powered by one man, it was that one and he didn't do it in Europe.
Well sometimes it's fun to rattle chains so let's continue the argument.
Tesla only moved to the US in 1884. This article is talking about events that happened 70 years before, even before the civil war, when half of the US economy was cotton farming.
You still haven't demonstrated the industry isn't based on IP theft :)
You should care about the work you do. Just remember who you are doing it for. They own the work they being the company. If the company wants to reward incompetent kleptocrats then I salute them as long as I get PAID the second they stops happening they can with the greatest of respect get f’d. then you just take your trade and apply it somewhere else having learned expensive lessons they paid for about what worked.
In some ways the west is still remarkably feudal but to the direct chain of managers not just directly to your “liege lord”. I regularly see people say no to big bosses who are outside the direct management even if they have high ranks.
This appears to be heavily downvoted but hard to argue against seeing how irreligious the second generation has been since the big influx of North African immigration started. Religion has not been very successful in France for a while now
No, of course not. Second-generation immigrants and later trend towards the culture of their host country. Third generation is indistinguishable from the rest of the population. This is universally seen...except for Jews, who have long memories of systematic oppression.
Security operations centres for private companies that have lots of screens in them and tiered rows of desks. Bonus points if they have a podium at the front for briefings. Additional bonus points for having glass window view plane for visitors. Final bonus points for a button that converts the graphs on screens to a world map or some other BS when actual guests do arrive. It’s like some type of Apollo 13 fever dream.
Security operations centres for private companies that have lots of screens in them and tiered rows of desks. Bonus points if they have a podium at the front for briefings. Additional bonus points for having glass window view plane for visitors. Final bonus points for a button that converts the graphs on screens to a world map or some other BS when actual guests do arrive.
Sure but if you're a business that either purchased tens of millions of dollars of commercial real estate for your office, or are on the hook for a multi year, multi million dollar lease that doesn't look great on the balance sheet or to investors to have useless assets.
And there's not much you can do to even that out when the price of commercial real estate is dropping significantly.
I'm definitely not saying it's right, IMO it's a sunk cost and businesses need to plan for the future accordingly (even if it means unloading those assets at a loss).
It won’t move the needle, no. But neither does your vote. On the other hand, “get out the vote” campaigns are still a thing. It’s not a perfect analogy, but if business owners band together and all push people back to the office, it’s not unreasonable for them to hope it at least props up office space asset values.
