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		fsloth on July 26, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How Academia Resembles a Drug Gang (2013) "From the outside, industry looks to be churning out nothing, but trivial stuff for sale." I suppose what one chooses to focus on. The stuff I do in industry helps people design houses and infrastructure.

andrepd on July 26, 2015 [–]

Concrete mixing companies help people build houses and infrastructure, if you want to put it that way. Still, it's the epitome of churning out trivial stuff.

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