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Re:How Google quietly funds Europe’s leading tech policy ins... by toxik on Sunday August 01, 2021 @04:58PM (#28029895)
It’s much less sinister than that. Facebook funds PhDs in some fields because they want experts in that field to a) exist, b) like Facebook.
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Re:How Google quietly funds Europe’s leading tech policy ins... by droopyEyelids on Sunday August 01, 2021 @07:50PM (#28031404)
Even the way you're phrasing it, sounds like PhDs don't get to a) exist without Facebook's blessing
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Re:How Google quietly funds Europe’s leading tech policy ins... by toxik on Monday August 02, 2021 @06:20AM (#28034870)
It is generally the case that things don't exist without funding, correct. Different countries have different political consensus on how much tax money to pour into funding PhDs for basic research, but /all/ do to some extent as far as I know.

I think you should read Sapiens by Harrari, he writes about the interaction between universities, capitalism and democracy. Very illuminating to me.

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