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  • Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.comto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneHoly rule!
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    1 month ago

    They sure do. Just like they, and society as a whole, benefit from fundamental research in general. But since the end goal of fundamental research is “only” knowledge, they never want to properly fund it (and usually cry about their taxes funding it too).

    Scientists got to the moon. Capitalism simply had a massive incentive to make their scientists achieve it first at the time and actually gave them the required level of funding to achieve it.


  • Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.comto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneHoly rule!
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    1 month ago

    The competition between the communist USSR and the capitalist USA is what got us there that fast. Seeing how most capitalists seem to have a burning hatred for fundamental research, and the space race wasn’t directly profitable, I’m not sure capitalism alone would have got us there even by now.