Scientific innovation has been driving US economic growth for decades. Losing that edge means losing access to the technologies and brainpower that come with it.
It’s kind of annoying how every metric the gray heads use either boils down to money or is just directly money. It’s like that’s all that matters to them.
I think it’s more of a way to get a quantitative comparison rather than just being about money. Don’t get me wrong, money has corrupted everything. But in certain cases when you need to compare value between things, the closest thing we have to a common denominator is moolah.
It’s kind of annoying how every metric the gray heads use either boils down to money or is just directly money. It’s like that’s all that matters to them.
I think it’s more of a way to get a quantitative comparison rather than just being about money. Don’t get me wrong, money has corrupted everything. But in certain cases when you need to compare value between things, the closest thing we have to a common denominator is moolah.
I’d say material results are a pretty good metric.