You may not agree with libertarians (I don't), but you don't have to strawman their positions to make your arguments.
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their opposition to taxes that support government-funded research is not a straw man.
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And their arguments that the model is slowly failing is also a serious one.
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but the model is failing because the super rich (in which techies are over-represented) are helping break it!
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so make that ideological argument and show how that's happening if you believe that. I don't.
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you think that the richest people in this country pay their fair share and haven't exercised influence to lower taxes?
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You're in the right place to ask that question: New York, to all of Wall Street.
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well I'm in Cambridge at MIT so maybe I'm not at the right place. Or maybe I am.
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R&D broke bcos PhD Ponzi peak met 2000 crash in perfect storm. Add regulatory capture of funding agencies by tenured faculty
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LOL. R&D winter began in the 70s when ARPA became DARPA. Ask Alan Kay. Fed R&D budget pays for military pork now.
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Reexamine your numbers. NIH is actually biggest chunk followed by NSF. DARPA is smaller than both. I think DOE is bigger too

