• chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    You’re dead on. Science is a process. I can science the shit out of baking soda and vinegar to make a volcano, and I don’t need government funding to do it. What you science is effected by capitalism, but capitalism is just a scare word. No matter what you want to do, if it requires a significant amount of power or work to create your materials, a cost is accrued somewhere, and someone has to pay it, whether it costs dollars or beaver pelts.

    • trashgirlfriend@lemmy.world
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      2 years ago

      This is reductive to the extreme.

      Clearly if all you want to do is to build a baking soda volcano you can go ahead.

      It’s also pretty clear that baking soda volcanoes aren’t the kind of science the meme is talking about.

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        2 years ago

        Correct, capitalism is just a system intended to prioritize capital using markets. Science is a methodology of determining truth. As a method, it is tautologically “perfect” because all failures are to be accounted for by the very methodology. The choices that capitalist systems make and socialist systems would make may be different, but the decision-making process itself could be run scientifically.