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Sure, that’s great but it’s not even the point. Fundamental research and other type of “useless” scientific endeavors help humanity as a whole to better understand our universe but would never be privately funded because they don’t have any concrete and immediate financial benefits. This is precisely what a government should finance, because no one else would do it and yet it’s small stuff like that that make us collectively move forward as a species

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Musk fans don’t want humanity to advance. They hate technological progress.

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Where did Musk come from? I don’t see any mention of it here

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The Department of goverment efficiency was Musk’s meme idea and Trump is apparently just rolling with it.

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Musk will govern the DOGE department, won’t he?

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For OTHERS, yes. But many want the cutting edge for themselves, at no cost to themselves.

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help humanity as a whole

And here you’ve identified why they hate it. They cannot stand the idea that resources might benefit other people, resources that they could hoard instead.

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Oh, they’ll probably publicly fund it for private profit

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