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So, is the USA screwed?
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Huh? The US government paying SpaceX made it possible to succeed in the first place. That's literally the US investing in aerospace tech.
China is catching up, but still behind in defense and aerospace technology. The one area they are ahead is industrial capacity to build, especially ships. China builds a huge number of civilian and military ships.
Wages, manufacturing, etc. are all far more expensive in the US. It's also much easier and cheaper to copy someone else's design than to discover and build for the first time.
Microsoft has good support for Linux nowadays with Windows services for Linux and Azure Linux for example. On the desktop Microsoft Windows is still leading in market share and Microsoft Office is dominating as well.
Where are the biggest Linux companies located?
Apple's AR/VR is innovative, if not particularly successful in the market. Their M-series chips are among the best chip available. Very fast with low power use.
Apple makes their products in same factories (Foxconn etc) as other companies. So the labor conditions aren't unique to Apple at all.
I mostly agree. The quality of the US education system is similar to the health care system. The US has some of the best education and health care in the world. However, it's neither cheap nor affordable for the majority of the population.
I agree mostly. Regarding funding under Trump, we will see. Elon Musk certainly know about R&D costs and benefits and is influential.
Yes, other countries are catching up steadily overall and are ahead in some areas, especially China.
"China is catching up, but still behind in defense and aerospace technology"
this is a fiction, according to US defense officials, but if we pretended it was true, it doesn't change the original point, that the US is falling behind in most technological fields.
you'll notice that I didn't mention aerospace in my original top of the dome list.
it looks like you're agreeing with all my other points though, so I don't have much else to say except that the important American fiction to dispel is this:
"other countries are catching up steadily overall and are ahead in some areas, especially China."
10 years ago? you could argue that other countries were playing catch up in most technological fields.
now?
The US is behind in nearly every technological field and especially now is uninterested in catching up to the rest of the world.
The US population cannot afford to live and is critically undereducated, and are about to have four more years of withheld R&D funding and catastrophic isolationist policy.
That's the reality on the ground now.
any "we're not doing so bad" mentality simply is not correct anymore, and it's important to recognize the reason behind and the rate at which the US is failing to advance in critical fields.
You're not going to be able to swerve back onto the road by pretending the guardrails you're grinding against aren't there.