This is the equivalent of saying “Eat all your dinner cause there’s starving children in Africa”.
Sure, this sounds nice, but this logic falls apart the instant you start thinking about it.
We can do that, but first let’s make sure everyone on the planet has clean water first.
danc4498@lemmy.world 3 months ago
CybranM@feddit.nu 3 months ago
You sound like the people criticising NASA for spending money on science. “Who do X when Y is still an issue?”
I doubt you make that kind of prioritization with your own money.
wholookshere@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 months ago
NASA also consistently provides new innovation and new science.
What will the dome keep contributing to society for the absurd electricity cost it takes to keep running? Advertisements?
Yeah, there not really the same argument.
nooneescapesthelaw@mander.xyz 3 months ago
The money spent on this would not have been spent on giving clean water to people thousands of miles away
dandi8@fedia.io 3 months ago
Does this really make it any less worthy of criticism, though...?
hoch@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Yes?
sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyz 3 months ago
How about using it for the free school lunches that the Governor decided to veto for some fucking reason?
RogueBanana@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
We would rather have the children starve to death than being called a communist.
nooneescapesthelaw@mander.xyz 3 months ago
It was privately funded, this money would not have gone to school lunches
brbposting@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Is that where guillotines come in?
nikita@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Maybe it would’ve if governments taxed them properly and spent that money to save the planet
BruceTwarzen@lemm.ee 3 months ago
So we might a well build some shit.
frunch@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Hey, it’s just $2,300,000,000
Can’t even feed a packed homeless shelter for that much ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
assassinatedbyCIA@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Doesn’t flint still not have clean water?
nooneescapesthelaw@mander.xyz 3 months ago
Those are two different states, plus flint does have clean water now (although the effects of contamination and lead exposure still remain in people who grew up drinking it)