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I'm not convinced that you're correct, but let's assume so anyway. The point I am making is that technological superiority buys you far more than mere cash. This is why I referred to "capital" and parenthesised "money". Apologies if this wasn't clear enough.

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If you assume so, you'll see that the current masters of our universe will not allow a company to build the capital and technology to industrialize space, until they have the control packet. They are not stupid you see. Same thing happened with IBM, HP, Microsoft, Oracle, Google, etc.

There were many other technologies that had the potential to change the global political system, like the Internet.

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