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[–] eran_morad@lemmy.world 18 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

60%+ is what it takes to lease buildings and pay salaries in NYC, Boston, SF, LA, etc. So, are you okay with wrecking science in those cities?

Have you any concept of how many people would be suffering or dead if Boston’s scientists were flipping burgers instead of making discoveries?

1st pig organ transplant. 1st anesthesia. 1st live donor organ transplant. GLP1 agonists. Enbrel. Gene editing. Human genome. All out of Boston. Off the top of my head.

[–] sus@programming.dev 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Leases would show as zero on the balance sheet if the government owned their own buildings. But of course someone decided that was "against the free market" so now the government cannot own anything in the name of "efficiency"