Engineering is a buggy whip thing bump.
Engineering is a buggy whip thing bump.
Hey, if it’s what “the free market” tells us, who are we to argue, being the slavish devotees to it that we are. To h*ll with innovation and discoveries and the manufacturing base and military capability, money and profits are all that matter.
Probably not many here will recognize the name Pierre-André Couffinhal. He was an attorney and friend of Robespierre during the French Revolution and became one of many infamous Tribunal judges who sent many people to the gallows. Couffinhal was not the brightest bulb on the porch, because when the chemist Lavoisier, who was being indicted (and ended up losing his head) was brought before him, pronounced the judgement “The Republic doesn’t need scientists!” Needless to say, justice has a way. The mobs eventually turned against Robespierre and his cronies, including Couffinhal, who met the same fate he condemned others to.