Did you get that from an opinion piece in the WSJ? Internet = a federal grant, public investment which is not throwing money. Research grants actually take some work to get.
Humans will eventually cope is your argument, technology will find a way. Well given enough time then market forces will solve all problems. I don’t really want to wait that long. Market forces ain’t gonna cut it. NASA went to the moon in what 7-8 years? Space-X was founded 17 years ago.
It’s really not a hard concept to grasp. If the goal is to attain an end state where profit is not attainable in the short term, or let’s say a positive net present value over the life of the project, then public intervention to manipulate market forces is the only alternative. Until there is an innovation that can be commoditized for a large enough base of consumers to sustain a profit, then public funding is also necessary. After all, the iPhone is just a repackaging of existing innovations.
Necessity, not profit, is the mother of all inventions.
Shouldn´t she be at school? Just a question… we are in the middle of a school year.
Is she manipulated? Of course she is, she´s just a kid actress and her speeches are made by others. Isn´t it obvious? Gee…
Projection is distraction, and distraction is how you get away with things. But poor little Greta is too young to be conscious of this. She says what she says because she doesn’t know what she’s saying.
If true, we should cut her some slack, the follies of youth and so on, which she could overcome. Adults on the other hand are a different kettle of fish…
Cutting her slack is exactly what those who hide behind her are counting on. That’s how a human shield works.
If she can’t take the incoming fire, all she has to do is quit shielding them, and we’ll all forget she ever existed and she can go back to school and try for some semblance of a normal life. Her choice.
