[thesmtsolver2]

This is not a capitalism issue. During the communist revolution, scientists were persecuted if their work was too "intellectual" and didn't have immediate use.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stinking_Old_Ninth

https://www.culturalrevolutionceramics.com/object-details/do...

[direwolf20]

There can be more than one religion with similar beliefs.

[mmooss]

The Church of Capitalism (as opposed to small-c capitalism) is the ideology of here and now; that's what I was talking about. The capitalist-communist dichotomy - a favorite of ideologues in both groups - is not something I was referring to.