'Inferior product...rent seekers' - Yeah, that's why the Soviet Union started the silicon revolution, and why the Chinese currently lead the field, right?
They open sourced their fabs, and random farmers on collectives would come home (while starving) and make improvements in fab technology by candlelight.
If only they had you to guide them, with your advanced knowledge of economics, trade and process technology.
Every communist nation had a much larger high technology sector than similarly developed capitalist nations.
Unless you want to talk to me about the fabs in Portugal and Mexico in 1990 when compared to the ones in Bulgaria and the USSR you're making my point for me.
Yeah that's why engineers from Soviet Societies would scale barbed wire fences at the risk of getting shot to get here!
Communism is great if you like hunger and oppressive stupidity. "But it's never really been tried!" - No, it has: it is fundamentally incompatible with freedom and/or intellect.
Nobody is buying what you're selling, champagne socialist.
They open sourced their fabs, and random farmers on collectives would come home (while starving) and make improvements in fab technology by candlelight.
If only they had you to guide them, with your advanced knowledge of economics, trade and process technology.