But you don't need anywhere near as many hackers hacking at any one time as you'd need a horde of various STEM professionals to create new things or novel uses of old things.
Then the hackers can only steal ideas that are already made so if all the good ideas are taken... then what do?
Oh, oh, oh! I've got this one... "China only has 13% STEM because they STEAL all the ideas from elsewhere.."
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Nah cause stealing ideas is typically done by hacking. More STEM
But you don't need anywhere near as many hackers hacking at any one time as you'd need a horde of various STEM professionals to create new things or novel uses of old things.
Then the hackers can only steal ideas that are already made so if all the good ideas are taken... then what do?