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PhD student Maxim makes $18 an hour to research children’s cancer – it’s barely above Australia’s poverty line (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] 1 point 4 months ago

In many ways - that's the point! They had the funding to develop things which would then become the building blocks for other technologies. Blue sky research is research done without a commercial outcome - but enables future projects with immediate application.

It's the only way we progress.

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