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Re:China appears to be accelerating development of a super-h... by drb91 on Thursday September 20, 2018 @10:41AM (#18032744)
In retrospect, the amazing part wasn’t the science so much as americans working for something other than profit. Naturally, it was a proxy war instead. If only we could get our current batch of war hawks to push for research instead of bombings maybe we’d actually get something as a country out of our massive defense budget....
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Re:China appears to be accelerating development of a super-h... by HeyLaughingBoy on Thursday September 20, 2018 @02:29PM (#18034508)
americans working for something other than profit

What do you think all those corporations were working for other than lucrative government contracts? What do you think all the employees were working for if not their paychecks? While I'm sure that many of them truly loved the work, their primary reason for working was that they got paid for it. Just like everyone else. Profit make the world go around.

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Re:China appears to be accelerating development of a super-h... by drb91 on Thursday September 20, 2018 @11:34PM (#18036996)
Profit on an individual level, maybe, but not an industrial level. Taxpayers funded it.
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