And here you are, posting on the successor to a government funded project, developed by brilliant minds who were likely the recipients of scholarships or state funded educations.
Just because some of humanity are dicks, doesn't mean that you didn't benefit from the people who aren't dicks.
And i'll reiterate what was said above. Just because you're making bank doesn't mean you're making people's lives better. You can make money making the lives of others awesome. But making bank doesn't necessitate that you're making the lives of others better.
That's the same logic that was used to over-inflate the sub-prime mortgage bubble. If you want to make the lives of others better, make sure you're doing that, rather than walmarting your customers.
Look man, just because the government created a packet switched network doesn't mean it wouldn't have happened eventually. Yes, war creates technology. Doesn't mean you should go bomb all the things.
"In the 1950s, the United States Department of Defense was concerned about the ability to survive a nuclear first strike due to a dependence on an effective communication network. Paul Baran of the Rand Corporation concluded that the strongest communication system would be a computer network that would be able to break messages into units and that the network route these message units went along a functioning path to their destination, where they could be reassembled into coherent wholes."
Tim Berners Lee invented HTML. Don't cherry pick the one example that makes your point. A thousand other technologies make up the Internet and they didn't depend on war.
So what? They all depend on the sun, quantum-scale interactions between atoms, and on the evolution of life on Earth too. Those are just as arbitrary as any other point being made here.
Just because some of humanity are dicks, doesn't mean that you didn't benefit from the people who aren't dicks.
And i'll reiterate what was said above. Just because you're making bank doesn't mean you're making people's lives better. You can make money making the lives of others awesome. But making bank doesn't necessitate that you're making the lives of others better.
That's the same logic that was used to over-inflate the sub-prime mortgage bubble. If you want to make the lives of others better, make sure you're doing that, rather than walmarting your customers.