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332 sats \ 5 replies \ @optimism 23 May \ on: MAGA’s Supposed "Assault" on Science (The Economist) econ
Exactly! What else is that fund for than to help carry through tough times while you fix the issue? Every single person I know that got hit by bad policy (no matter who's in the WH, or in the EU... anywhere!) ever has dipped into savings if they had to to sustain "operations". People with savings ranging from $500 to $50k. But some elite school that has at least a million times as much savings as the average Joes I know... cannot do this and needs the taxpayer to help them out?
Entitled. Lil. Pricks.
Yep, I think Trump understands that politically, people are not going to sympathize with Harvard.
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Even if that money's locked up as bad as Elon's Tesla options... you can still take out tons of loans. So there aren't any excuses in the short term.
The thing is this: US life expectancy plateau'd in 2012 (I read that in a Politico interview today and fact checked it.) Which is funny because the other day I observed that industrial output plateau'd in 2012 too while labor costs rise (#978413) which i suspect both point to lack of innovation.
So, this could mean that researchers are truly assmilking public moneys for dumb research no one wants, needs or uses. I think that that could be a valid hypothesis.
Now, if you're Harvard, either you fix the issue and admit you were assmilking, or you disprove the assertion that this was the case and fund it in the interim by yourself. Well.. that or you go all spook and try to influence public opinion to give you more money without doing either, which is of course what is happening now.
Damn right. Preach, friend, preach!
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