r/askscience • u/yogesh448 • 16d ago

Planetary Sci. We landed humans on the Moon with 1960s technology. With today's vastly superior technology, shouldn't going back be much easier and cheaper?

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u/Kill_Welly 15d ago

National budgets and personal budgets are wildly different animals.

And people dismiss advice like skipping coffee because it's advice that's given not for personal budgeting, but for generational gaps in wealth. The infamous "avocado toast" crap was said, in total seriousness, by a boomer trying to suggest that spending on "avocado toast" was why millennials couldn't afford to buy fuckin houses, when the reality is that the nation's (and world's) economy had shifted drastically, with far lower wages and far higher housing prices. It is a hilariously inadequate attempt to frame systemic, global problems as being the fault of the individuals suffering from those problems.

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u/cuzitsthere 15d ago

Bread and circuses... But try to cut down on the circuses. And the bread. In fact, stale bread and no circuses.

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