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Lol I work in software in The Valley. Trust me, we write this shit.
Yeah, nobody's saying you don't write software. This is a history lesson in where the tech comes from.
Even then, a lot of the work done there is stapling together APIs, right? A lot of those APIs are implementations of tech developed, again, in the public sector.
And if you are writing novel stuff, I'd bet good money all the interesting stuff comes from research done in universities, right? Most of the interesting things I've ever programmed were based on public sector research.
And even then, the industry got started with public sector money. Maybe your company got its start from VC funding or whatever, but that's after the whole sector was jump started. Now the big companies in your field don't pay taxes, in fact a lot of them are paid by your taxes.
I mean, if you want to explain where I'm wrong, go for it. Right now all we have is "trust me", which is famously strong evidence.