• FooBarrington@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    You can’t just throw excess money at things and suddenly it works out, there’s diminishing returns and in the end you can just be throwing money into the incinerator vs doing any good.

    How could this ever be worse than throwing the money into the incinerator that is shareholders? At least the money spent on R&D won’t be used by rich assholes to manipulate politics and public opinion.

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      10 months ago

      It could actually slow research down.

      Bringing more researches onto the same project doesn’t always make it faster. It’s the whole 9 woman can’t have a baby in 1 month problem. Some things can’t be sped up with more people or money.

      And if you have too many projects going, things start to get mismanaged.

      Bureaucracy breeds inefficiency

      Edit: also I don’t think you read my OP as I said they should lower prices instead of all the nonsense.

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        10 months ago

        It could also speed research up. It is incredibly unlikely that the current amount of money spent is exactly the best amount possible.

        And even if research were to somehow slow down compared to now, the world would still be a better place, since fewer rich assholes would have undue influence.

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          10 months ago

          Do you even understand what I’m saying?

          The world isn’t a better place if research slows down because they charge you $7100 but it’s $650 elsewhere.

          Lower the god damn prices.

          Bam there’s fewer rich assholes now and millions of individuals are better off.

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            10 months ago

            Do you understand what I’m saying? Don’t just lower prices, also increase investments in R&D. We are not at peak R&D efficiency, so don’t ignore it completely.

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              10 months ago

              If they truly believed they could spend more money and get more out of it, they would be, because that would give them billions more in bonuses.

              These multi billion dollar companies run efficiently until they don’t because they expanded too much too fast and the bureaucracy and size becomes the problem.

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                10 months ago

                Why do you think that they can get more money with more efficient R&D? Sometimes less efficient solutions result in more money.