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 Originally Posted by a500lbgorilla
How would a free market support an aimless practice whose only goal is to enrich our human understanding? I don't believe it would.
It could and it does currently. Universities, Elon Musk, PBS, SETI. I think we should overall increase the amount of government funding in research, but the more dynamic the market economy gets, the more capable and incentivized participants are to do things for pleasure. That's largely at the foundation of capitalism by definition: labor based on desire
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