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This is the problem with the software industry generally. At the end of the day it’s the hardware manufacturers that hold all of the power aka “the means of production” and America has largely gutted it’s manufacturing capacity opting to make a quick buck without a plan to incentivize investment into new manufacturing capacity. China is on a rapid path to surpassing the West even in cutting edge technologies because they also have the domestic production capacity for all of the unsexy capital intensive industrial production that feeds the innovation.