* <<G3C.1373>> Capital's too important to leave to the capitalists.
Kasparov makes almost no sense, 
[[http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/03/10/garry-kasparov-hey-
bernie-don-t-lecture-me-about-socialism-i-lived-through-it.html][here]
]: "My Facebook post went around the world on technology created in 
America. The networks, the satellites, the software, nearly every 
ingredient in every mobile device and desktop computer, was invented 
in the USA. It is not a coincidence that the most capitalist country 
in the world created all these things. Innovation requires freedom of 
thought, freedom of capital, and people who believe in changing the 
world."

1. "The networks" (packet-switching networks) were developed in the 
US thanks to government spending in the form of DARPA grants.
2. The satellites wouldn't be in orbit without decades of 
unprofitable government spending on space research, and launch 
facilities owned and operated by the government.
3. "The software," at the bottom, comes from UNIX, which (in addition 
to the transistor, the CCD, etc.) came from Bell Labs at the time 
when AT&T was a government-regulated monopoly. 
4. "Nearly every ingredient," is way too broad to break-up, but let's 
remember this: the development of *most* fundamental computer, 
communication, and aerospace science and engineering in the US was, 
in no small part, paid for with tax dollars in the form of Department 
of Defense research projects. The United States isn't a technological 
juggernaut "because capitalism".  The United States is a 
technological juggernaut because for a long time, the government 
diverted *a lot* of capital into universities and research 
laboratories that would not have been funded otherwise. 

Additionally:

3a. Linus Torvalds has said that Linux probably wouldn't exist if he 
hadn't lived in a socialist country which allowed him to spend most 
of his 20s in University, where he had the time available to work on 
Linux.

Freedom of capital?  There *is* no freedom of capital when the 
capital is entirely in the hands of corporations.

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