|
|
 Originally Posted by a500lbgorilla
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.
Yes I don't think we're close to the stage where private capital can more than account for this, but we are moving in that direction. I think we'd have to live in a perpetually growing economy where social mobility is so great that the amount of millionaires is increasing at a non-insignificant pace for that to happen. I don't think that's too far off in the future, though
|
Reply With Quote