A Boring Dystopia

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There's no money for education and health care but they'll always find some for war. (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Eh, that may be how you see it.

Personally I’ve been more directly involved in actually helping people and things go to the fricken moon than I have in all of my defense projects, combined. And space is just one of our cool science markets.

I can do defense stuff, I’m authorized to, in a pinch I can (and have), but I would really rather not. Work on that side of the house sucks.

Nobody likes how the sausage is made, but it’s going to get made as long as someone buying it. I’m not eating the sausage. I’m not buying the sausage. I’m having a satisfying job, managing operations at a small pig farm that also develops new cutting-edge cancer medications inside of pig pancreases. Different group of pigs, though.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's not so much "how I see it" as it is "how it is" and you don't seem to deny that.

I understood that you prefer not to work on the child-killing devices the first time. Nonetheless all the other "cool science markets" still help your employer make those child-killing devices.

While the sausage will keep being made, I can actively choose not to be the butcher and I'm having a hard time respecting people gushing about their work on the non-butchering side of the same company.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

No, you have it backwards, the child killing devices enable my employer to do the cool science markets.

Revenue from child killing devices and related patents pays for the science research. And as it turns out, a lot of those patents also work really well for the cool life-saving science stuff.