arpanet was not the only packet switched network, the idea existed in multiple places back then and would have been developed anyway, government money or not.
Source?
the French had their own network
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CYCLADESThe academy was already working on packet switching before ARPANET even existed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_KleinrockA computer science professor at UCLA's Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, he made several important contributions to the field of computer networking, in particular to the theoretical side of computer networking. He also played an important role in the development of the ARPANET, the precursor to the Internet, at UCLA.
in particular his phd work "Information Flow in Large Communication Nets" was published on May 1961, 8 years before ARPANET.
Did you even read your sources? All of this research was funded through either the government or through public universities haha, that's exactly what I said.
Google, Facebook, Youtube, all top 10 of the most popular websites on the internet were made by private companies.
So you really have no idea, you're just throwing things out and hoping they stick.
in America before the fed was created in 1913.
the situation started to deteriorate from then until in 1971 America completely defaulted on its promise to redeem dollars for gold and started to print huge amounts of money effectively manipulating the money markets.
You mean the time period when workers were exploited using incredibly unfair labor practices *cough* slavery, the government allowed monopolies because many elections were essentially bought, and we had literal legal slavery? When large firms, to avoid competition, would kill opponents to seize land and property in the West, abuse their political connections to strong arm small firms or landowners, and indentured servitude was the norm for thousands of immigrants? This is your golden age of American existence?
the first attempt in America to establish a minimum wage was in 1933, back then the supreme court actually declared it to be unconstitutional.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum_wage_in_the_United_States#Prior_U.S._minimum_wages_laws The first attempt at establishing a national minimum wage came in 1933, when a $0.25 per hour standard was set as part of the National Industrial Recovery Act. However, in the 1935 court case Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States (295 U.S. 495), the United States Supreme Court declared the act unconstitutional, and the minimum wage was abolished.
only in 1938 did the government finally manage to bend the constitution over and enact this socialist law.
making it illegal for you to work if your labor is worth less than the minimum.
Yeah, they didn't bend the Constitution, they utilized the Commerce Clause iirc to establish the right to regulate employment. This helped lead to the enormous rise in living standards we've seen this century, and the creation of the middle class. I know you've read a lot of things on the interwebs, and everyone screams enough anarcho-capitalist stuff that you believe it, but it isn't accurate just because you've seen or read a large amount of it.