/sci/ - Science & Math

I don't think it's only about prioritisation and money. Sounds like a pathetic cop-out of an explanation.
This is not exactly about going to the moon but the entirety of development happening in all fields.
I've seen engineers and programmers on the internet pat each other on the back for not studying more after work, software is degrading. There's many lazy people writing error messages as "something went wrong, click ok" and thinking he or she is working 'smart'.
Look at what websites are becoming, these large single scroll sites with like one button on every page. Its retarded and more tools get taken away as software gets more bloated.
I've seen two middle aged guys related to my family degrade completely, one's a doctor and another a surgeon, going home after work and not doing anything. One plays video games from the moment he comes home while his wife watches netflix. The other is incredibly depressed, smokes cigars while his 6 year old daughter watches minecraft and creepypasta videos on her ipad alone in her room throughout the day.
I saw a youtube video of some guy having finishes an undergraduate degree and never learning git, he did not even know what it was. It was obviously in America which from an outside perspective practically seems like a third world country now, but like how do you manage that surrounded by people learning the same field and with endless resources on the internet.
We live in a privileged time, a fairly peaceful time where technology just simply gets better and works but civilisations throughout history have forgotten how to do things and technology has entropy.
It's how public education has degraded too. I remember in first grade when I was 6 we learned arithmetic, writing and using simple computers. The things we used to learn weren't colourful with funny pictures or made to be fun but that started to happen as I got older up until 10th grade. There's garbage doodles everywhere and shit is taught as trivia and facts.