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[–] [email protected] 40 points 4 months ago (205 children)

I love this kind of shit. Building things for the sake of it is worth it. Not only as just expression, which may be hubris but it's still expression. Also entertainment, inspiration, pushing the art of engineering, and just giving people something to do, and all the good that comes with that like personal and trade growth.

A purely utilitarian life is a life only spent on survival. Not a life I want to live.

[–] [email protected] 84 points 4 months ago (15 children)

We can do that, but first let’s make sure everyone on the planet has clean water first.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago (11 children)

The money spent on this would not have been spent on giving clean water to people thousands of miles away

[–] [email protected] 35 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Does this really make it any less worthy of criticism, though...?

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