PrudentDamage600 t1_iuugjce wrote
When people complain about spending government money on space programs instead of helping the poor I tell them that the space program IS helping because it pays salaries and the wages are taxed and they buy things from companies who have employees, etc.
Hypersion1980 t1_iux7ftp wrote
A lot of science and tech come from the space program.
HorseFightingLeague t1_iuxi42j wrote
It does, but hook and loop doesn't make the dude sleeping on a park bench better off.
Hypersion1980 t1_iuxibbx wrote
Refrigerators came from scientific learned from outer space. 100s of other examples.
HorseFightingLeague t1_iuxiunh wrote
> Refrigerators came from scientific learned from outer space.
Laughably and objectively wrong because the electric fridge was designed in the early 1910s.
Try again.
PrudentDamage600 t1_ivht7s6 wrote
But. It reduces the quantity of people sleeping on a park bench.
HorseFightingLeague t1_iuxhvcj wrote
> I tell them that the space program IS helping because it pays salaries and the wages are taxed and they buy things from companies who have employees, etc.
😂 sigh. Someone doesn't understand taxes, nor government budgets, nor the baked in profit of government contracts.
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Xaqv t1_iuvty57 wrote
I wouldn’t want to be underneath one of those ways that blows things up for all the oil in Iraq. On the other hand, think of all the high paying jobs there are in weapons manufacturing.
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