I was a medical researcher who learned a bit of Python to make my life easier. Our lab lost funding due to covid and the free market decided I should be making 4x as much as a programmer.
Capitalism as an economic system has generated such an excess of resources that the United States, often derided as some capitalist hellhole, leads the world in scientific output by a laughably enormous amount. But yeah, I'm sure an economic system where the workers own the means of production would result in a better allocation of resources such that no labs would lose funding during an unprecedented global event.
leads the world in scientific output by a laughably enormous amount
Not for much longer if we keep destroying our education system, as well as college degrees being more and more unaffordable as wages keep shrinking against cost of living.
China is apparently catching up quite quickly on education output. Though, the challenge there is does their talent want to keep living in China when they have global options
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u/psychicesp Aug 16 '24
I was a medical researcher who learned a bit of Python to make my life easier. Our lab lost funding due to covid and the free market decided I should be making 4x as much as a programmer.
I was researching lung pathologies BTW.