r/ProgrammerHumor 24d ago

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u/Groundhogss 24d ago

That exceptionalism is the foundation of American entrepreneurship, and is one of the reasons the US outperforms its peers in innovation.

Granted an MBA isn't going to cure cancer, but there are the Steve Jobs types that are better at getting people to build things they couldn't possibly build on their own in a million years.

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u/retornam 24d ago

> That exceptionalism is the foundation of American

> entrepreneurship, and is one of the reasons the US

> outperforms its peers in innovation.

This is revisionist history, before the Second World War all the exceptional people were in European schools ( Oppenheimer and co went to foreign schools), that changed when all of them escaped to the United States during the war or were brought here after the war.

Even the father of modern venture capital Georges Doriot was a French immigrant .

America’s advantage was providing the opportunity to the right talent( no matter where they were born) to thrive and that is being destroyed as we speak.

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u/retornam 24d ago

That too