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?
Dadifer@lemmy.world 3 months 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?
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 3 months ago
I don’t know what you imagine I was saying, I was just trying to say that a lot of that is science.
Dadifer@lemmy.world 3 months ago
All I’m saying is that postdocs shouldn’t be living below the poverty line with a side of stop killing people.