Re: American Attitudes (was Re: Hard working?)

[Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten]

Charlie Bell schreef:

> > One could also speculate how big a part the setting played in
> > this (or any
> > other) case, IOW, whether or not Bell would have invented the
> > telephone had
> > he stayed in Scotland or in Canada.  Or if von Braun would have led the
> > successful effort to put a man on the Moon if he had gone to the Soviet
> > Union instead -- or if Germany had won WWII . . .
> >
> >
> > -- Ronn!  :)
>
> He invented it in Canada. He patented it in the US and marketed it there.

Looks like many inventions went that way. They went where the money is. So
America's greatest export might be it's currency. :o)

I've heard this somewhere, but cannot remember where. When someone at the
American treasury was asked by a foreign official why the heck they don't
make any effort to make the almost mondial used American currency safer by
making counterfitting it more difficult the man apperantly answered 'it is
_our_ currency so if you have a problem with people counterfitting it _that_
is your problem, so _you_ deal with it'. Anyone care to debunk or confirm
that. <grin>

Sonja