Comment on The existence of billionaires is a policy failure
MrFinnbean@lemmy.world 2 weeks agoI mean technologies like imaging improvements used to scan moon made CT and MRI taking better images, Robotics tech that has pushed prostetic limbs and robotic surgery foward, remote diagnostics has taken leaps because, well ISS is pretty remote place.
ThirdConsul@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
But that wasn’t privately owned company but public one though?
MrFinnbean@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Yeah. It also was american program, but every country benefits from it today. Scientific break troughs tend to get out there.
ThirdConsul@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
I’m sorry, what are you trying to argue here? I’m genuinely confused?
MrFinnbean@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Im trying to fight urge to say, “i bet you are often confused.”
Im not arguing anything. Im just saying that progress in sience does not matter if it comes from goverment, or billionare, or dude in a barn.
From all the things billionares could be competing against eachother, space isint the worst. Its not the best thing either, but it is a fuck ton better than buying football teams or building golf courses.