Winning the tech race is not about any single breakthrough. Leadership requires competing across the full menu of technologies, developing the dexterity to build at speed and scale, and defending our domestic markets from nonmarket competition.
America could come up with a miracle drug that cures every disease known to man
And then the average USAling would never be able to afford that drug even if bankrupting themselves. And your big pharma would also keep it out of the hands of most of the world by patenting it and keeping the price artificially high. And you’d all still boast that you discovered that miracle drug and all the rest of the world is inferior to you.
And then the average USAling would never be able to afford that drug even if bankrupting themselves. And your big pharma would also keep it out of the hands of most of the world by patenting it and keeping the price artificially high. And you’d all still boast that you discovered that miracle drug and all the rest of the world is inferior to you.
Case in point