It is completely inexcusable that people in STEM fields are so reactionary, considering how capitalism utterly destroys science.

If universities were actually "left wing indoctrination factories" like the right thinks they are, every STEM grad would be taught, for example, what Kropotkin had to say about innovation.

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    4 years ago

    But seriously, I think the amount of the former is a lot more than people might assume. There are people who want to become an engineer to earn an engineer's salary, or who want to be the next Elon Musk, but outside them, you won't make it very far in science and math without a legitimate love of the material. If you're in it for the money you're wasting time and should just get a business degree or something.

    And even among those engineers, aren't they basically in the same boat as doctors? It's not like doctors are massively reactionary just because many of them chose that path for the salary.