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If the world needs it, it’ll be there. Subsidizing it does not suddenly make the world need it.
by water9 3y ago
If the world needs it, it’ll be there. Subsidizing it does not suddenly make the world need it.
- _hcuq 3y agoThe internet was subsidized....
- water9 3y agono, it was invented at UCLA and Stanford and financed by what is now modern DARPA. It wasn’t a matter of financing, it was a matter of national security. we are subsidizing plenty of advanced technology that puts us on the bleeding edge of military, but that doesn’t mean they wouldnt find private funding
- hotnfresh 3y agoI believe shopping this assertion around a social science department (or economics, if we’re not calling that social science) would yield a rather more nuanced view.