The overwhelming majority of great technologies were invented in the West / West-allied nations.

Steam Engine: England

Internal Combustion Engine: France

Basic Oxygen Steelmaking: Austria

EAF Steelmaking: Scotland

Bessemer Steelmaking: England

Carbon Fiber: America

Integrated Circuits: America

Jet Engine: England/Germany

Silicon Carbide Fibers: Japan

Airplane: America

Container Ship: America

Modern LEDs: Japan

Fucking food itself (Haber-Bosch): Germany

Cement: England

Fracking: America

Nuclear Energy: America

CNC Machining: America

Pick-and-place: Japan

Drones: America

Bitcoin: America

MOSFET (underpins internet): America

The Internet: America

Fiber Optics: India

LASER: America

3D Printing: America

Vulcanized Rubber: America

MIMO: America

GaN devices: Japan

OLEDs: America

GPUs: America

Cellphone-to-sat coms: America

Cloud Compute: America/England

Hypersonic Glide Vehicles: America

Nanocrystalline Alumina Fibers: America

Shall I go on?

Never invested in a commodity.

None of them.

Never will.

"Omg you're missing out"

Maybe.

You're missing out on being in the room where the great leaps forward in human civilization take place and being a multi-trillionaire.

Keep your tyrannical wastelands.