> Capitalism doesn't preclude public infrastructure. That's just a facile argument

I am measuring by the same yardstick as the OP.

If taxes to pay for public services are good capitalism, then you can’t call Europe socialist.

> The modern LED was developed by…

Whatever, take Hyperbaric welding. Will a western oil company refuse to use it because it was invented in USSR?

The fundamental accusation of the OP is totally hypocritical.