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[–]Canbot 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I agree that publicly funded research should come with a requirement that profits get paid back into the government. That is something we can improve on. However, that is not a pro-commnist argument. That is not a pro anything argument. When you make that argument as an insinuation that a different system would be better you are lying. No system can ever have open research because then every other country will just steal all that research and then spend their money literally advancing past the suckers who made theirs freely available. The discussion to be had here is how profitable is it to the tax payers to fund research for companies that then pay taxes? How can we create a watchdog system to make sure benefits are returned to the tax payers? Those are fair discussions. Not "hur dur capitalism is bad do communism".

[–]Captzapheart 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I never said it was an argument for communism,there are very powerful arguments in favour communism, but that wasn't one of them. And thanks for the almost civil response.