The Human Genome Project cost taxpayers $3 Billion.
Within one decade of completion, it had already generated a staggering return on investment of $1 Trillion, with benefits in medicine, agriculture, energy, the environment, & more.
If you want to boost the economy, funding science is one of the best things you could do.
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It’s like the the cheaper education and housing a couple of lucky generations got never mattered
Now the billionaires are happy as they benefit from forty years of pulling the ladders up
And people are looking around asking how things changed, as if Tax Cuts For The Rich didn’t have a clear end-game
#economy
@luckytran To be fair, the HGP was fundamentally an engineering project. The science came after the data was available. There were even a few engineering and science breakthroughs along the way to speed things up.
But yes, fund science (and related engineering), to invest in the future. Or don't, and open a repair shop.
See also: computing, the internet, satellites, the interstate, rural electric and phones, all of which spun off enormous industries that hasn't yet existed.
Funding education, too!
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