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Scientific research as a hub for the future's needs

Anonymous

April 26, 2023

Scientific research as a hub for the future's needs

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In my desired future, science would become the cornerstone of the EU budget. With a better scientific knowledge of the world around us, Europe would drive good reforms not only in the primary and the secondary sectors of our economies, but also in health and education. In the primary and secondary sectors, it would allow us to become more competitive by taking advantage of our already great potential for developing high-level technologies in comparison to other regions. This way, the EU would become more efficient in every economic activity (which also means less environmental impact) and, also, more strategically independent. In health, quality of life for our elders would be increased, hopefully to the point of partially preventing aging. By achieving this, people would remain socially and workwise functional for more years. Apart from the inherent personal and social direct advantages, this would avoid the long-term budget crisis that lots of European states can face as their populations get older. As for education, pedagogy and psychology, helped by new technologies, would guide the adequate reforms, adapted to each country, that prepared the youth to become highly skilled, global citizens. Having this kind of citizens would, in turn, boost the EU economy (through increased adaptive enterpreneurship) and also the quality of its political aspect: it would promote critical attitudes and a proactive citizenship.

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hallo
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hallo
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hallo
After the ruinous economic crisis caused by the European political ruling class corrupted by funds from the Far East, we have regressed to the level of a subsistence economy, where the rich have remained or become even richer, while the working class is suffocated and burdened by economic burdens imposed by laws designed to keep the bureaucratic class (which in fact produces nothing) alive economically by forcing the people to finance the performance of merely bureaucratic acts in the black. the peasant class (in fact agricultural entrepreneurs) live in prosperity as they are privileged (they have land and livestock to survive). Poverty and hardship will lead to the partitioning and management of land by subjects more or less legitimized by residents (protection, food and survival). The spread of depression will lead to the misuse of more or less licit substances (from cheap alcohol to sophisticated drugs for the wealthier classes). a general lack of national pride will cause many things to lose their meaning, and what might have been considered "honorable" will no longer have the same value. In essence there will be a progressive social regression (history teaches: dark times after the fall of the Roman Empire). To those who will still be alive the arduous judgment, even if history will be manipulated to condition minds and social intentions. NCSS: There Will Be No Hope!!!
hallo
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