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[thesummerqueen]

I think the thought as shifted from a progressive movement to a wealth preservation of those that have it. In earlier centuries, most research was done by reasonably wealthy people, yet today, there must be a point of research, an economic angle. Why is that? What makes one so vain to consider that the knowledge is enough?

Well, the past isn't a place where we were less beholden to our pocket books. Nerds existed and experimented if they were well-funded by people who thought it was a good investment, or rich men became scientists if it suited them. But if you're asking for the current state of the world. Well.

"We stopped dreaming." - Neil DeGrasse Tyson