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• LillyPip@lemmy.ca ⁨45⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  Ooh, just wait til it becomes ‘not publishing or speaking about something that will get you labelled a communist and publicly shot’.

  That one is coming soon.

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• agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  “Capitalism breeds innovation”

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  • optissima@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    Innovative ways to beg for money ;)

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• HexesofVexes@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  “I want to make the world a better place at no real benefit to myself”

  “Ok, but only if you beg us for the money”

  Modern academia in a nutshell

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  • SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yeah, in a lot of fields it simply would pay more to go private lmao

    Still, it feels more rewarding to contribute to the scientific body than to just make someone else rich

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    • HexesofVexes@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      So, if your field appears instantly/imminently monetisable, then the private sector is an option. However, the wider benefits of your research are VERY unlikely to reach the wider public in your lifetime. Yes, you will basically be working to make someone else rich. However, this kind of grant is very likely to succeed in academic settings as universities love patents.

      If you’re doing abstract or fundamental research, you’re pretty much out of luck - the private sector does not want anything to do with this. However, it’s little better in the academic sector because you have to spend almost all your time chasing grants, or teaching topics outside your expertise (i.e. the ones industry sees immediate value in) to survive.

      In short, there is a lot of options to finish things (because everyone loves intellectual property as an asset), but very few to develop them (no-one likes to pay for the groundwork).

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• Fedizen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  This is also how county government works, and part of why the US road system is a mess.

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• starlinguk@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  This is why I work for the army (not the US!). They offered me a permanent contract. I’ve been fighting for funding for the past 30 years and it’s become pretty much impossible. My last job was supposed to become permanent and the government cut funding after 2 years instead.

  Not doing anything explodey, by the way, just researching how to deal with mass emergency events.

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  • fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Something something disaster capitalism. You have my sympathy, I sometimes fill on Natural Disaster classes.

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• Gork@sopuli.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  There has to be a better way.

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  • Riverside@reddthat.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Medicine is already this better way (in countries with social healthcare systems). A body of highly trained specialists who constantly update their knowledge through research, conferences and reading the last scientific advancements, and don’t necessarily earn extremely high salaries but have a comfortable life and a stable employment. We could expand this model to all sciences.

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    • rustydrd@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      What country would that be in? Because where I live (Germany), medical researchers face pretty much the same challenges as researchers in other fields.

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  • LadyMeow@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I know, but there isn’t. Capitalism is the only best thing we’ve tried, certainly the best no other way to do it, please don’t try the socialism thing. 😔

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• Engywuck@lemmy.zip ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  This makes two of us. I’m unlikely to be deported, still…

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  • SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    This is from before the election. They’re probably LONG gone by now.

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• LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins@hexbear.net ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Kind of a shitty thing to post and title “woml womp womp”

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  • fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It’s self depreciating lol. I’m on a visa too.

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  • Lussy@hexbear.net ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    People like OP are the reason ICE exists

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    • fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I’m the immigrant lmao.

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• thevoidzero@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Why didn’t we just have people that apply for grants, then people who work on research. Of course the person that applies for the grant should be familiar with the capabilities, and verify the proposal is sound before applying.

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• nothx@hexbear.net ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I don’t get it…

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  • fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Capitalism bad.

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