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Dadifer@lemmy.world 6 days agoProblem solved then! Everyone just needs to do killing people science in order to make a living.
Comment on The struggle
Dadifer@lemmy.world 6 days agoProblem solved then! Everyone just needs to do killing people science in order to make a living.
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 6 days ago
Are you really upset that the term “science” includes even things we might personally find upsetting?
Dadifer@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Yes
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 6 days ago
Why though
Dadifer@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Because our (US) current priorities fuel a worldwide arms race, while real investment in basic sciences would benefit humanity and keep postdocs from starving. The entire NIH budget for everything is $47 billion, while the Department of Defense budget is $825 billion, $145 billion of which for R&D. You think we should be spending $100 billion per year more on killing people than on making people’s lives better?