Why is America better then England at freedom

With absolutely all due respect, most people who go down that line of thinking end up wearing tinfoil hats and turning their bedrooms into Faraday Cages.

Ha, what makes you say that?

My dad always used to tell me a somewhat tall story when I was a kid about one of his mates in the building trade did some repair work in a warehouse once, and that the warehouse was full of things like ever-lasting lightbulbs, and all the gadgets they couldn't release because they would wreck the economy...

Why was it so unbelievable? It's widely known, for example, that Tesla had a lot of difficulties with Edison concerning the use of AC current. (Who knows what else was 'undervalued')?