2025-12-14 08:12 UTC
@KFears@mstdn.games I'll add that engineers love making stuff because it's fun or technically interesting, but often disregard politics or think that they're doing science so they're neutral. Problem, they need money to work. Who has money? Big corps, who put their interests before ideology, so they will become fascist if it helps growing in the current political context. That's how well-intentioned engineers or scientists can be driven by fascism without knowing it.
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@tuxmain@toot.aquilenet.fr 2025-12-14 08:19
@KFears@mstdn.games For example in my lab (in a public research institution), nobody is fascist, but most people are working on fun and interesting things (like autonomous drone flocks driven by AI) for which I can't imagine any other realistic application that the military (the usual apology is "saving people in earthquakes" but firefighters are not as rich as armies). All that is because of how budgets are allocated and how we're force to collaborate with private sector for funding.