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[–] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 46 points 1 month ago (1 children)

China graduate 5 million STEM students a year and actually invest money into research and pushing technology instead of just finding new ways to extract rent.

A lot of Western nations are actually reducing their funding to sciences.

Shooting themselves in the foot and then blaming China for it.

[–] hello_hello@hexbear.net 29 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

A lot of Western nations are actually reducing their funding to sciences.

The first axe will always be to the humanities though. The program opportunities between engineering students and liberal arts students at my uni is night and day. Partly why I'm doing a double major, there's just not a sustainable future in the humanities.

[–] GnastyGnuts@hexbear.net 19 points 1 month ago

It used to bum me out that our country invests so little in the humanities, but now I just hope it diminishes our ability to reproduce our culture.

[–] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 6 points 1 month ago

The first axe will always be to the humanities though

Pretty sure they've already done that in many places