• Wanderer@lemm.ee
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    7 months ago

    Someone that doesn’t understand how much capitalism has done for research.

    The scales aren’t the same, the public would never allow that sort if risk, its completely impossible for governments to cause that amount of drug breakthroughs

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      7 months ago

      But the public of course is just fine having a little 10 trillion military excursion in the middle east. You don’t even need to explain how it will be profitable in that case. Because of how passionately everyone wanted this.

      For old people cancer, capitalism is the only possible option.

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      You apparently don’t understand how much government-subsidized research has done.

      Ever had an MRI? Ever known anyone who had an MRI? Ever known anyone whose life was saved because something was discovered on an MRI?

      Thank NASA, not capitalism.