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> Spending public money on unproductive work makes society weaker for everyone else.
I don't think anyone's spending public money on HN.
There are plenty of .edu's and .gov's logging in to HN.
I administer one (about 60,000 average monthly users), and it's loaded with connections from such institutions.
It's always delightful to see someone talking stupid about science get smacked down by someone with a nasa.gov connection.
https://maritime-executive.com/article/new-zealand-navy-surv...
I've had countless discussions with people who want to spend billions on sports stadiums and the military but then scream endlessly about "big government" when it comes to the arts and education.
They'll bail out wall street at the drop of a hat and then shrug with big eyes, "where's the money going to come from" when someone brings up say, having an anthropology department at UCLA.
It's an obvious bullshit game of a political project masquerading as virtue that you'd have to be a toddler to fall for. I don't care.
Thinking that way is already baking yourself into Murray Rothbard.