On 2012/10/03 06:53, Marko Vojinovic wrote:
On Wednesday, 3. October 2012. 2.55.25 jdow wrote:
On 2012/10/03 02:01, Marko Vojinovic wrote:
How about government funding? There is a tried&tested scenario used for
some
time now all over the world, say in science. For example:
Then you get what the government says you will want not what you do want.
We saw that in Soviet Russia as a very glaring example.
That depends on how government is organized. In many countries the government
does not decide how the funding is actually used and which R&D projects are
financed. Those decisions are left to expert teams or peer review committees or
such institutions. People who get to evaluate project proposals are typically
the people who were voted by the community to be in those positions. It's
called democracy. ;-)
You shouldn't judge the whole idea based on one lousy implementation that
happened in Soviet Russia.
Dumb question: Why do you think it will be different any time in the
future when it has never been different in the past? We already see
this effect with Obama supporting so called "Green" industries that
are going bust even with massive government subsidies. Governments
push agendas and are answerable to nobody, especially when they control
everything, such as your income, your ability to feed yourself, and so
forth. Capitalism gives a feedback mechanism that prunes off things
people don't want (Compuserve or AOL) giving them what they do want
(Twitter, Facebook, Slashdot). Where is the realtime feedback mechanism
within government?
{o.o}
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