• msage@programming.dev
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    10 months ago

    Technology and science is pushing humanity forward.

    And despite capitalists claims, it’s the government supplying both, not the corporations.

    Take billions in public funding, sell the result for profit, claim no one else could do that and no alternative exists.

    Tale as old as time.

    • Wanderer@lemm.ee
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      10 months ago

      You need to look up the amount of funding corporations do verses government.

      Also government spending in a capitalistic society is a good thing. It’s like education. Governments put money into education and get “nothing” back for it. It just wastes money. But Governments do not work like businesses. Governments work through taxes so anything that can increase the amount of taxes they make is a good thing.

      So something like education or funding is a cost that is recuperated in taxes.

      Getting business to do things is just more efficient then doing it state controlled. That’s why America did so well from the war and Germany had issues.

      The understanding of economics and capitalism is very low on this website.