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[–] givesomefucks -2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

“Let’s stop all progress until we deal with insert_your_problem_of_choice” has never been a good take

I mean, sure, most of the time.

But when one is "a shit ton of kids is starving" and the other is "vanity moon mission we don't gain knowledge from"...

Yeah, maybe address the starving kids first.

but I doubt that starving children in India is actually a mere money problem. It looks more like a wealth distribution problem, and that one doesn’t get fixed by stopping space programs.

India flat out said the reason for this program is for PR...

It's not science, it's not innovation, or the pursuit of knowledge.

The reason they've spent decades and billions on this, is to try and seem like India is a 1st world country.

That could also be accomplished by not having one of the world's highest rates of childhood starvation and malnourishment.

Instead they ignore that for "flashier" methods.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

India flat out said the reason for this program is for PR...

It's not science, it's not innovation, or the pursuit of knowledge.

What's your source on this?

[–] dhruv -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You know what I think the root cause of any money problem in India is? Corruption. It's corrupt from the very top. It's not exactly easy to fix it with a population that large either. It's a mess and that's why it's a third world country.

Edit: That's one of the reasons it's a third world country. I'm just highlighting what I find wrong.