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My industry? My industry is tech, where I got paid 7 figures for years and years doing fuck all to benefit society. It’s pretty telling that you just assumed
by lightbendover 2y ago
My industry? My industry is tech, where I got paid 7 figures for years and years doing fuck all to benefit society. It’s pretty telling that you just assumed someone defending a marginalized group was a member of that cohort.
Are there improvements that could be made in the grant process? Sure, just like there are improvements that could be made in any process. That is not a justification for taking a sledgehammer to the existing institution and affecting thousands of our brightest and hardest working residents who generally are not in it for godforsaken money but to better society. The ends in your kindergarten example do not justify the means. This is political, it’s not a merit-based cleansing.
I’m sure someone such as yourself would never see medical research as a public good so I guess we’re done here. The ideological bridge is too vast and frankly I have lost complete interest in the drivel on the other side.