I suppose the same was said by the buggy whip indu
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Before that I suppose the Indians were upset by the Great White Father's support/subsidizing of the transcontinental railroad.
And I'll bet that private colleges were upset by the 'land grants' that created public universities.
NASA was 'subsidized'. The microelectronics in your f*cking phone are one of the spin-offs.
You can pretend that some 'revolutionary spirit' is going to trump science but your arguments are political, and not very sound at that.
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All I ask is one simple question: if an industry can only exist because it’s dependent on subsidies and regulation, what do you think will happen to that industry if the public mood swings, a revolutionary spirit takes hold post Brexit and Donald Trump, and those subsidies are withdrawn and the regulation is removed?