Why America Invents So Much

[@tylerandrews4375]

Turns out when you allow people to prosper from hard work and innovation, you get hard work and innovation.

[@mustang607]

The opposite is also true.

[@acem82]

If you like good behavior, reward it. If you dislike evil behavior, punish it. Funny how so many have it backwards today...

[@vaughnreedjr6592]

Slavery too.

[@acem82]

@@vaughnreedjr6592 The chattel s l a v e r y in the last 500 years could never have existed/competed without the State propping it up. It was only by ensuring that everyone had to pay for its enforcement that the institution could be sustained. -An Economist

[@garymcaleer6112]

We came to a land having to start from scratch unlike the nations of Europe. This established the need to catch up with the other nations who had centuries to build and fortify. That appreciation to innovation reflected Plato's proverb: "Necessity is the mother of invention."

[@jeremywheeler2122]

I love that you mentioned Calvin Coolidge. I don't think you mentioned that he was a deficit hawk as well. He wanted America to run without owing money to anyone.

[@freedomwriter1995]

Too bad so many people get punished for their success nowadays.

[@mustang607]

Almost as if there’s a war on ability.

[@marcussver620]

Europeans used to be at the forefront of innovation, but that changed long ago. Today, Americans are the ones innovating, while the Chinese replicate their successes, and Europeans primarily focus on regulation. Consequently, the advancements in the internet and AI come from the U.S., with Europe mainly concerned about overseeing them.

[@CuentaNew-zr2ge]

true

[@FartSquirel]

Not entirely, Western Europe has learned the communist lesson. Western Europe is going down the drain and going to enter a dark period soon.

[@BigHomieSteveTheMetalHead]

Oye mate, you got a loiscence for that?

[@A410-f1o]

Cause half of European talents and brains went to the USA

[@kirara4953]

And now it's woke

[@paulristow3454]

Desperation is the mother of invention. And competition breeds desperation. In a good way.

[@ywainleonis2035]

A constitutional republic that embraces capitalism is the most innovative? Hardly a surprise to me. Hopefully the US can keep it going!

[@Wvubrad]

I was ready to type it until I saw someone beat me to it. This.

[@justaneditygangstar]

@LeonardoPisano-sn2lpoh? You got any proof for that?!

[@nunyabidness3075]

I think he’s referring to the 16th Amendment, Bro. Hyperbole, but it was a deadly step.

[@0matters]

@@justaneditygangstar not that hard mate, check where major source of funding that politicians and parties got, comes from. For exp, why in the most wealthy nation on Earth, medicinal drugs are insanely priced vs same drugs/brands sold in other countries.

[@dannygreen7473]

Good luck with that. Nearly half of of Americans are begging for communism. 99% of that half have no clue what that leads to, but are actually naive enough to believe it will make things better.

[@nunyabidness3075]

We sooooo need a Coolidge right now.

[@kelimike]

Great presentation.

[@tlow5766]

100% We in 🇩🇪 know that we have a lot of innovation power and do a lot which matters today BUT we struggle to make the last mile that turns innovation into a working product. This where 🇺🇸 excels! We need a lot more from that spirit over here.

[@zeminoid]

The bureaucracy, ecological setbacks, and taxes make growth impossible, that's why Germany is imploding.

[@patricklora4434]

This video could not have come at a better time for me. My Chinese wife just asked why the US is able to invent a lot of stuff! 😃

[@frozenkilt]

For the record, Henry Woodward and Matthew Evans successfully produced and patented an electric filament lamp before Edison started working on electric lighting. Two Canadian guys. Edison bought the patent, if I remember correctly.

[@diggles27]

But Telsa (American immigrant) invented the better replacement for it, The fluorescent light bulb.

[@c.galindo9639]

Yes. Innovation is done by ingenuity. Ingenuity comes from prosperity. Prosperity comes from opportunity. Opportunity comes from Freedom. Now take any of those away from the equation then the best results will not come to fruition, however when you have all working in tandem together. You gain the greatest results altogether. We need that back now more than ever

[@mikemcconeghy4658]

First challenge is to have a nation where people have both the education and leisure to come up with something new. That eliminates a whole lot of the world right there. Next challenge is to get the funding to roll it out. If no one ever hears about your invention, it may as well have not happened.

[@Master_Arthius]

Also, they buy minds from abroad.

[@DogeMcLovin]

Many people don't realize what they have until it's gone. It's a testament that our services-based economy provides us ample currency to buy goods, all without having to risk life and limb to do so. Laborers in other countries also deserve safe working conditions, but rampant corruption (which isn't capitalism!) hamstrings it.

[@SalvadorEguiarteDG]

The patent office is the summary of this presentation.

[@nunyabidness3075]

We badly need to fix the patent office. It’s become weaponized (or rather it’s still being weaponized).

[@michaeldobishinsky1266]

Thank you for your videos! Have you thought about doing a video about different voting methods like Rank Order, Scoring and Star? Thanks.

[@This1isaJesusFreak]

I have a why... Why are so many states banning certain breeds of dogs? Pit Bulls, Bulldogs, Rottweilers, German Shepherds, Malinois, etc. Are being banned in certain states. I could be wrong, but to me, it looks like they don't want the average person to have a good protection dog. I'd be interested in hearing your thoughts on the topic.

[@mjgbabydragonlet]

Great Why Minute!

[@simongross3122]

I think it's really simple. Americans have rights but not entitlements. In countries that have entitlements but not rights, there is no incentive to innovate.

[@ligh7foo7]

Did you put in a Good Ranchers plug at the end?

[@idontknowwhatahandleisohwell]

Intellectual Property rights.

[@TRoth858]

America, like Yisrael is a chosen land. Our start was not by accident. Our rise in power was not by chance. God put the choice men and women here that would give us a good start & with great guidence. Our constitution was, and to this day, is very powerful, and our forefathers were inspired in what needed to be there to protect we the people today. We have a Devine destiny. We must however bring God back to our nation in full force. We failed our Heavenly Father, and our Savior when we allowed the govt to remove them. Start praying, and praying hard for both of them to be by our sides as we go in to the battle that will then usher in the Lord's second coming. Stay safe patriots, Christians, and good honest people. 🙏🇺🇸❤️🇺🇸🙏

[@cataphracts123]

spot on

[@JohnMulvihill-f3j]

There are a lot of countries with freer markets than us. But we still have innovation. This is in part due to public research and development spending. Not entirely, of course, but the internet, gps, computers, Nuclear power, the flu shot. In fact, almost all pharmaceuticals released in past decade was funded in part or entirely by the federal government. All of that was your taxpayer dollars at work.

[@tomriley9051]

Thank you! But shhh, we don't like government interference around here...

[@TheSuperTiger2011]

And also competition with the ussr that also invented a crap ton of stuff.

[@Abusemtex]

- Lightbulbs invented 1879 by the german Heinrich Göbel - Computers invented (in theory) by the british Charles Babbage and in practice by the german Konrad Zuse - Telephone invented by the german Philipp Reis in 1861 (disputed because a lot of other european inventors were on the same track) - First flight with an airplane - the german Otto Lilienthal in 1889 - Nuclear energy 1938 by the german Otto Hahn sorry bro

[@normhagen1913]

Your list is like saying flight was invented by DaVinci...sorry bro

[@Abusemtex]

@@normhagen1913 you can read?

[@katana1960]

Let me guess, you're German. You ought to look up the list of all the things invented by blacks, it's even better than yours.

[@Focusembedded]

The EU has another giant problem: The Euro, which is a currency that central banks controlled by governments manipulate for political ends. In the 1940's, the Nazi's marched on Greece and in the end, they lost it. A decade ago, in order to keep Greece in the Eurozone, hard working Germans had to bail out a whole lot of Greeks who'd rather lie on the beach all day. The fiddling with the Euro to keep political alliances together causes the actual value of the currency to be enough out of touch with reality that interest rates are always going to be a bit screwy. And lenders don't like to loan to small businesses if the rates are distorted to be too low, meaning they'll never get their money back. At the same time, if rates were too high, lenders would be happy to make the loans but no borrower is going to be able to afford the interest to pay the loan back. The only system that works is if the market prevails to set the long-term value of the currency at a point where the borrower/lender transaction takes place. Politicians in the US would be wise to recognize this. Every time you start a "stimulus" in the US, it involves printing gobs of new money, which eventually drives up inflation and interest rates. (And in recent decades the US Federal Reserve has been discovering they don't have enough magic handles to pull to counteract this basic fact of macroeconomics. Well, not all of the Fed members have discovered this. Guys like Richard Fisher of the Dallas Fed already knew it and tried to raise awareness, largely getting nowhere in the Obama era of "Let's blow money on Solyndra and Cash for Klunkers!" And if you gave Janet Yellen a book on economics, the most she could do is chew the covers off. She remains clueless, which is probably why she's in the Biden cabinet.) In any case, flood an economy with money when there's no change in the demand in it or that economy's factors of production, and you're going to distort the lending of money in ways that assure that businesses can't get capitalized. Tune in tomorrow and we can discuss what happens when you tax unrealized capital gains, as a complete economic idiot presently running for President has suggested...

[@overtonpendulum2071]

Latitude and European revolution.

[@antontsau]

The biggest difference is not even social acceptance of novelties but personal. Average European dream is business as usual, Schulz family bakes bread in this bakery for 300 years, and if young Schulz begins to think how to change it (yes, invent sliced bread) he will be shamed, punished and finally runs away to America.

[@bartlester591]

Yes, we used to be true innovators. The problem is is I would say about the late 60s early 70s. Our government decided to start punishing people for innovation because it seems like today we don’t innovate near as much as we used to. We don’t progress because of that I mean here and there we have the occasional technical innovation, but not like we did from, let’s say the 1920s all the way through to the 1960s we don’t innovate like we used to and the reason is because governmental, red tape, governmental restrictions and governmental interference in innovation has stifled the American juggernaut in stagnant while the rest of the world tries to catch up this is another problem of the left. We could’ve kept going, but the political left does not like true innovation because innovation like you said it’s building the better mouse trap and making money off of that and we all know that left us don’t like money don’t like us making money they want us to, die innovatively because if you can chokehold the thing to death, you can control a thing to death. I mean just look at the fact we haven’t built a brand new refinery in this country in almost 60 years with today’s technologies we shouldn’t have the problems we have we’re finding petroleum reason regulation. We don’t have nuclear power plants and we wouldn’t have a problem with our power grid as much as we do today why again government interference, government, red tape, and insanity because we can only depend on wind and solar. It’s not always sunny and it’s not always blow the windows and always blowing There no one wants to look into like geothermal can’t do that because oh no, we might hurt something. Our government has so many regulatory agencies. It’s not funny and some of those agencies need to be culled and we need to get back to the concept of less government and less government interference and more innovation. We can make things better if we give half the chance but again government likes to stick its nose in where it’s not want it or not welcome

[@the_expidition427]

Creativity is not self destructive left leaning groups cant go for that

[@lucasworktv]

The reason why America might be the greatest nation in history is because it’s a mix of great nations from all around the world.

[@Alabar3000]

Funny you put the light bulb in the thumbnail...

[@mustang607]

Yet, we can’t all be John Galts.

[@stevenscott2136]

The John Galts can't exist without the engineers, accountants, mechanics, miners, farmers, and others who provide the means for them to turn new ideas into anything other than sketches.

[@seanobrien7169]

Galt's Gulch was open to the workers too. Remember the porter on the train and the teacher in the gulch?

[@marthacalkins8054]

This is why the solution to limited resources (e.g., petroleum-although we have a few hundred years worth still in the ground) is not mandated. Set the parameters you want met, offer a billion dollar prize, and…GO!

[@andrewmclellan1623]

Good one, thanks! Why did Republicans oppose a bipartisan bill to close the borders? Was this due to provisions allowing large numbers of people to cross the border legally but with little oversight?

[@the_expidition427]

Thats called open border with extra steps

[@jeronimotamayolopera4834]

CONGRATS. WHERE IS MY WAR?

[@wattsoncyberman2783]

Why does the American government give so much money to other countries?

[@moathalmahroqi]

8 minute video is better than 3

[@AlexRussell-kd9pd]

It is sad to see so much of USA culture turn its back on science, merit, and hard work. The rise of Trump on the right, and the woke on the left doesn't bode well for the the future of the USA.

[@mattarellodemoniaco1475]

the first phone was invented in Italy 💀

[@sander...444]

I do understand your reasoning, however in 2023 the number of patents registered in China was over 2,5 times more than the US and China doesn't fit your reasoning. Hence another variabel is either at play here or China is out-usa-ing the USA.

[@Sergio_Loureiro]

China is an economic implosion waiting to happen.

[@genewilliams617]

What they said!

[@johnchandler1687]

The key to the modern world: AC electric current by Tesla.( the man, not the car.😊)

[@mikitz]

Too bad the first light bulb was invented in Britain.

[@karolnoymann]

👉You should read a good History of science (written by someone other than an American), it would allow you to decentre yourself a bit and see the real place of the USA in the history of thought and that of fundamental discoveries that were all in place before the USA even existed.

[@sophiaburrell5142]

Where was wifi created? America?

[@infrawiki]

USSR invented a lot too

[@PaladinCasdin]

You know, I agree with most of what comes onto this channel. But this video is just nonsense. The technology for the lightbulb came from Italy (Alessandro Volta), Alexander Graham Bell was Scottish, computers are English (Charles Babbage), the first assembly line was in England for the Royal Navy (built by Isambard Kingdom Brunel's father no less), the fathers of nuclear energy were all German or Hungarian, internal combustion was German, the steam engine was Scottish... the only truly significant inventions the US can claim are the internet, mobile phones and airplanes.

[@THall-vi8cp]

He didn't say computers were invented the US. He said, "the PC." The _personal computer._ That's a far cry from Babbage's difference engine. Bell was born in Scotland but he worked on and developed the telephone both his family home in Canada and at his office in Boston. He patented the telephone in the US. Volta may have developed the initial tech for lightbulbs, but it was Edison who made them prectical for everyday use. The invention of the internal combustion engine was done by English and American inventors way back in the 1700s. Later, German inventors improved on the designs and made them practical (like Edison did with the lightbulb -- interesting). You're correct that Hungarians and Germans worked on nuclear technology...in the United States. They helped early American nuclear physicists, as part of the Manhattan Project, build a bomb. American scientists and engineers then innovated and used it to build thermonuclear weapons (first postulatd by Fermi at Columbia University in 1941) and nuclear reactors as a source of energy.

[@PaladinCasdin]

@@THall-vi8cp So what you're saying is that America is very good at taking someone else's ideas and... making them better? You know, I'm pretty sure there's a comment about China in there somewhere. (Also, if you want to talk PC's then you're looking for the inventor of the microprocessor - who was Italian. 😉)

[@ctreid87]

Beard day!

[@sentforth5]

electric guitars!

[@Marcelgrossman]

Europe then: innovation, scientific Discoveries, art fashion and Architecture. Europe now: Islamification, immigration and inflation. And plz correct or understand this👇 Light bulb was first and independently invented by Joseph Wilson swan in England Telephone was invented by Scottish Alexander Graham bell Internet (WWW) by British Tim Berners lee in CERN.

[@gabecollins5585]

Thomas Edison invented the lightbulb

[@nolotrippen2970]

I'd say Japan over China.

[@HurBenny]

The airplane was invented in France, but the general idea is sound.

[@CW11721]

Wright brothers didn't exist, apparently.

[@HurBenny]

@@CW11721 they did, but they used a prior invention and famously bettered some aspects.

[@CW11721]

@@HurBenny What prior invention did they use? I know France was important in the early development of early aviation before and after Wright brothers, but the airplane was still first made by the brothers.

[@HurBenny]

@@CW11721 Clément Ader made his 3 working prototypes between 1890 and 1897, the Avion I to III. Avion is French for airplane and to this day you can find the word on American airmail enveloppes : « par Avion » (by plane) to pay hommage.

[@kyledabearsfan]

Funny, most of the world thinks we just steal our inventions lol

[@stacynowak3141]

No, we just steal the inventors, by giving them a place where they are free to create and be rewarded for creation!

[@kyledabearsfan]

@@stacynowak3141 we've also just made a lot of things here as stated in the video. I just find it amusing.

[@rodleyeriffe9149]

Morons are easily led into nonsense through propaganda. I believe it is why they mucked up the educational system. Thanks teachers unions! A union is there to create an equal playing field, those days are over. Former Teamster

[@Hilman_Faiz]

@@stacynowak3141 and by destabilizing other countries

[@AlexRussell-kd9pd]

@@stacynowak3141 Like the telephone, famously invented by a Canadian who had to go to the USA to get financing for this blindingly obviously money maker.

[@Zachery_Jiran]

Most inventions come from publicly funded laboratories and research groups. Not companies.

[@tomriley9051]

Thank you!

[@georgemorrison6689]

Hate to say it mate but you did get the heads up with most of those things, most of it came from taking it from scientists you took prisoner after WW 2 , nuclear Germany, computer Germany, radio that no doubt let to the mobile phone Germany, yes a good number of these inventions starter there infancy in Germany,

[@stevenscott2136]

Attracting talent is precisely what he was talking about. Once those German scientists were allowed to leave Germany (which Germans had pretty much made a mess of), where did they settle? Where they could continue their work and gain fortune and/or fame from it !

[@Jst4vdeos]

Source?

[@jimathebold]

😆 German prisoners. They wanted to come here and do what they do.

[@boredfangerrude8759]

Nuclear weapons were invented in Germany, nuclear energy was invented in the US. The PC, personal computer was invented in the US. Germany is being given undo credit.

[@michaelman957]

Free Market is best market.

[@michaelhuling9040]

Calvin Coolidge is the most underrated president in American history in my humble opinion!

[@XavierKatzone]

Take that, commies! 😜

[@shameless5868]

And this is what the dumocrat party is trying to snuff out