The point isn't to say America doesn't have smart and educated people but that America would need additional smart and educated people to do all the things Europe is doing currently and America is not. The same problem would be exactly identical in reverse if you wanted to reduce a world where Europe imported half (lets simplify a bit and ignore everyone else's contributions from other parts of the world) of the high skill products from the US and produced half domestically and now suddenly wanted to switch to doing it 100% domestically. Where would the US in the current anti-immigration climate get high skill and high education people who can have their pick of any country in the world if they want to uproot their life at home at all? Not to mention in numbers that replace essentially every high skill and high education job in Europe? And no, it doesn't really help that you only need to produce for the domestic market because you can't half write a piece of software or half invent a drug if you only need it for half the people.

That seems to be wrong [at least according to the ESA](https://www.esa.int/About_Us/Law_at_ESA/Intellectual_Property_Rights/Patents_and_software). The software itself is *copyrighted,* the *invention* is patented, either way the Nemesis system seems to be protected in europe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_patents_under_the_European_Patent_Convention > The European Patent Convention (EPC), Article 52, paragraph 2, excludes from patentability, in particular > > ... > > schemes, rules and methods for performing mental acts, playing games or doing business, and programs for computers; [emphasis added] That excludes video game related patents twice in one line.