⟳ Репост от Susan (George) Schorn
“If Elon Musk ran the GPS system, you’d hear abt it nonstop, valorizing this great man who built something so remarkable and valuable. But since it’s govt invented, owned, and operated, it just works, quietly and without fanfare… that’s…ideology, not so much what you hear about, but what you don’t.”
Google Maps, Uber, and Wall Street Run on Socialism: How the U.S. Government Built the Global Positioning SystemThe Federal government built a global navigation system, nicknamed "Lighthouses in the Sky" on which Google Maps, Wall Street, and shipping rely. Just don't call it socialism.www.thebignewsletter.com