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Individuals are weak and vulnerable.

You mean that 10 weak people can overpower 1 strong person. I get that.

It was only possible to build and exploit the steam engine where you had the legal structures, infrastructure and trading potential that the Great British government put in place.

You're not listening. Whenever someone invents something, the government bans it. If they can't ban it, they tax it. They're not helping.

They didn't invent and build the steam engine and industrial revolution in some backward Congo jungle with no government and the complex structures of civilisation that good government enables and that's why Libertarians are deluded dreamers.

You are the jungle. When one monkey discovers fire, a dozen other monkeys form a government and beat the smart monkey to death. That's how the jungle stays a jungle, and that's you.

The British government did not ban the steam engine.
Nor the telegraph.
Nor the cannon.
They did attack the Chinese and enslave millions of Chinese to Opium addiction.
Such is the factor of human organised trade and power projection.
Organised and enabled by the governments.
The basis of wealth and security for all human groups.
The Chinese government today build nuclear power more efficiently than any other organised group of humans in the world and that is why the Chinese people have a significant advantage in wealth creation and future prosperity.
Chiese engineers are building the first new nuclear power generator for Britain, because Britan got lazy and fat and decadent and forgot how to build things of value.
The US imperialists may want to bomb China and preserve their petrodollar hegemony but the US imperialist militarists have no rare earths and so the US military industrial combine that is the real basis of US wealth is crippled.
How sad.

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The British government did not ban the steam engine.

The government lost the fight that time. Marxists lost and capitalists won. The fight is still going with socialists trying to ban nuclear power plants.

Chiese engineers are building the first new nuclear power generator for Britain, because Britan got lazy and fat and decadent and forgot how to build things of value.

Because Britain became socialist. Statism is what drove them to become suicidal.

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