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• Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Right, because no one ever does anything for reasons other than money.

  Of course they do. What they don’t do is spend millions of dollars in R&D only to have that researched duplicated by someone else who then sells the same product for a quarter of the price…

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  • libra00@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You’re right, no one spends millions of dollars in R&D without expecting to earn a profit from it…

    They spend hundreds of billions instead.

    President Biden’s budget proposal for FY2025 includes approximately $201.9 billion for R&D, $7.4 billion (4%) above the FY2024 estimated level of $194.6 billion (see figure). Adjusted for inflation to FY2023 dollars, the President’s FY2025 R&D proposal represents a constant-dollar increase of 1.5% above the FY2024 estimated level.

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    • Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      …that’s the government

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      • libra00@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        …and that’s moving the goalposts.

        In my initial comment I said ‘no one’, and your first reply did not narrow the scope. I even said ‘no one’ again in my reply and you did not narrow the scope then either. So the standard was ‘no one does this’, except I’ve now shown an example of someone who does, so trying to qualify that now by adding some new arbitrary standard is just moving the goalposts. If the government does it then the fact that no one does it is false, isn’t it?

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