One of the reasons that America became such a massive global powerhouse, is because for the last 250 years, Americans pretty much invented the modern world. Whether it’s the automobile, the airplane, the computer, the Internet, the telephone, the lightbulb, the steamboat, the cellphone, the refrigerator, microchips, air conditions (or even things like fractional reserve banking, credit cards, and mRNA vaccines) — good or bad, they all came from America.
And the reason that so many inventions came from the U.S. is likely 2 fold.
Firstly, our system of government and free-market economy unleashed the human potential and ingenuity of a massive population….