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Re:On higher education, programmers and blue-collar jobs by AnimalMuppet on Thursday February 14, 2019 @03:33PM (#19165713)
No, I don't think it makes any sense. It seems to be saying that a "post-communist society" is a place "where bike mechanics don't invent flying machines". This seems to imply that a communist society is the kind of place where bike mechanics do invent flying machines, which, historically, is laughably far from the truth. Those bike mechanics, first, had the money to be able to invest some of it in experimenting with flying, and second, did so in the hope of further profit. They were very much capitalists, not just in the society they lived in, but also in behavior and motivation.
Re:On higher education, programmers and blue-collar jobs by SomethingOrNot on Thursday February 14, 2019 @08:35PM (#19167809)
Child’s play. True capitalists (1) hire wage labor to do the actual work, and (2) enlist the aid of the state to do all R&D and later use any technology that comes out of the research (socialize the costs (risks), privatize the profits).