The overwhelming majority of great technologies were invented in the West / West-allied nations.
Steam Engine: England
Internal Combustion Engine: France
Basic Oxygen Steelmaking: Austria
EAF Steelmaking: Scotland
Bessemer Steelmaking: England
Carbon Fiber: America
Integrated Circuits: America
Jet Engine: England/Germany
Silicon Carbide Fibers: Japan
Airplane: America
Container Ship: America
Modern LEDs: Japan
Fucking food itself (Haber-Bosch): Germany
Cement: England
Fracking: America
Nuclear Energy: America
CNC Machining: America
Pick-and-place: Japan
Drones: America
Bitcoin: America
MOSFET (underpins internet): America
The Internet: America
Fiber Optics: India
LASER: America
3D Printing: America
Vulcanized Rubber: America
MIMO: America
GaN devices: Japan
OLEDs: America
GPUs: America
Cellphone-to-sat coms: America
Cloud Compute: America/England
Hypersonic Glide Vehicles: America
Nanocrystalline Alumina Fibers: America
Shall I go on?
Never invested in a commodity.
None of them.
Never will.
"Omg you're missing out"
Maybe.
You're missing out on being in the room where the great leaps forward in human civilization take place and being a multi-trillionaire.
Keep your tyrannical wastelands.
So, uhh, TIL, it's not the pricey charity dinner entrance, but the auction that gets you. 😬🥲
Looking forward to our conversation @jack, thanks for sharing some of your time! 🤙
