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 Originally Posted by wufwugy
It could and it does currently. Universities, Elon Musk, PBS, SETI. I think we should overall increase the amount of government funding in research, but the more dynamic the market economy gets, the more capable and incentivized participants are to do things for pleasure. That's largely at the foundation of capitalism by definition: labor based on desire
Universities make sweet cash from gov't subsidized students.
Elon Musk is an example of the free market being incredibly good at solving problems, which is not necessarily what I was on about. The science I'm thinking of is the guy studying the neurons of silkworms just to put out some perspicacious literature on the neurons of silkworms.
SETIs cool and what I expected the answer to be: Excess cash that isn't feeding the needy is going to be feeding the curious.
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