>>12204727Scientists and engineers made modern life happen. They'll basically do it for free if you give them some space. You owe everything to piles of people who devoted their lives to figuring shit out which, at the time, had no commercial application. Corporations are exploiters of intellectual resources and stupid plastic shit from China is not making your life better. Capitalism is an optimization engine, for sure, but if you reward the wrong optimizations then corporations will find the best way to salt the earth to maximizes profits.
Giving Boeing pallets of cash to continue being absolute dumb fucks is not a good expenditure of energy, even if it provides "shareholder value".
