UC Santa Cruz fires 54 grad students who were striking for higher pay

Re:UC Santa Cruz fires 54 grad students who were striking fo... by thebean11 on Sunday March 01, 2020 @12:37PM (#22457943)

That's a pretty simplistic view of society. Do we need not need novels or music either? Let's drink nothing but soylent and devote 80 hours per week to our STEM careers

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Re:UC Santa Cruz fires 54 grad students who were striking fo... by chrisseaton on Sunday March 01, 2020 @12:38PM (#22457956)

People literally die without research into things like drugs. They don’t die without movies.

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Re:UC Santa Cruz fires 54 grad students who were striking fo... by slavik81 on Sunday March 01, 2020 @02:14PM (#22458578)

There's more to living than not dying.

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Re:UC Santa Cruz fires 54 grad students who were striking fo... by chrisseaton on Sunday March 01, 2020 @02:21PM (#22458625)

Watching movies?

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Re:UC Santa Cruz fires 54 grad students who were striking fo... by afthonos on Sunday March 01, 2020 @06:45PM (#22460247)

Yes.

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Re:UC Santa Cruz fires 54 grad students who were striking fo... by nico_h on Sunday March 01, 2020 @12:44PM (#22457985)

there are a lot of anecdotes about how a song or a book or a movie changed someone's life.

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Re:UC Santa Cruz fires 54 grad students who were striking fo... by andrepd on Sunday March 01, 2020 @06:59PM (#22460323)

As opposed to research changing someone's life.

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Re:UC Santa Cruz fires 54 grad students who were striking fo... by scarface74 on Sunday March 01, 2020 @03:23PM (#22459044)

> there are a lot of anecdotes.

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Re:UC Santa Cruz fires 54 grad students who were striking fo... by craftinator on Sunday March 01, 2020 @12:58PM (#22458089)

There are a lot of data about how many people have been saved through research. Anecdotes are data with n=1. Not a great comparison.

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