In a world where the condition of streets and highways are so dilapidated that going to the supermarket is an adventure, immense amounts of money are spent finding and analyzing neutrinos, particles from outer space that have only recently been identified because of their interaction with other sub-atomic particles. No one knows how knowledge of these ultra-minuscule what-ever-they-are can be put to practical use. Angels dancing on the head of a pin are giants in comparison.
If Bill Gates or Elon Musk want to chart the travels of invisible particles coming from the depths of space with their own funds, good for them. However, government subsidies for these investigations should be considered taboo. If, indeed, tax payer funds subtracted from the wages of laborers, truck drivers, and brick layers are being used to search for invisible muons there's something very wrong with the system.
This isn't the only profligate and wrongful use of public funds in the name of science. Hugely expensive telescopes peering into the infinite expanse of space and time of the universe are of no real use to the great majority of humans that wonder where their next meal is coming from. Even the most primitive of larger societies recognized that meeting the needs of the proles took precedence over anything but religion.
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