alt Hacker NewsThis is not a capitalism issue. During the communist revolution, scientists were persecuted if their work was too "intellectual" and didn't have immediate use.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stinking_Old_Ninth
https://www.culturalrevolutionceramics.com/object-details/do...
The Church of Capitalism (as opposed to small-c capitalism) is the ideology of here and now; that's what I was talking about. The capitalist-communist dichotomy - a favorite of ideologues in both groups - is not something I was referring to.