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Re:If pay had kept pace with productivity gains, minimum wag... by sixstrings on Friday October 09, 2020 @02:23PM (#24732823)
That view is even more flawed, since everyone who pays taxes is an investor of technology. Most breakthroughs in tech happen at universities. It’s not private equity that funds tech, but taxes. So the beneficiaries of tech breakthroughs should be... everyone.
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Re:If pay had kept pace with productivity gains, minimum wag... by qeternity on Saturday October 10, 2020 @04:30PM (#24741667)
University research hasn't been majority funded by taxes in decades. The amount of private money funding public research is enormous.
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