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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I really don't see why subsidizing research needs to be done by the public.

All of the endpoints are for private industry.

A) Why do you get an education?  So that you can get a job in private industry.

B) Why do we develop technology?  So that private industry can make money developing it.

For point A, I can see the argument that we can make people that wouldn't otherwise have an opportunity to get the education and get the jobs, but in practice is doesn't play out like that.  Private industry is so nepotistic.  Very few of the people that get government aid end up in good jobs in industry.  In cases there are jobs that the Good Ol' Boys for industry don't want to give their kids, they clearly prefer foreigners as indentured servants.  So basically, we pay to train foreigners so that private industry can take advantage of indentured servants.  The rest of us end up with giant academic bills.[/quote]

Before World War 2, the principle language of science was German. After World War 2, it is English. Think about it.[/quote]

This. It happens very quickly. Academics were targeted in the decade prior to ww2 and they took refuge positions elsewhere, that was the end, it didn't come back.[/quote]

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