What Are the Costs?

Under a system in which governments don't finance science, the only way for you to become a scientist is to go out there and produce something that gets other people to willingly hand over money for you. So as long as that was the case, which I believe was the case up until the early 20th century, then science is tethered to reality. There has to be an actual value. You can't just spend all day wanking in an office, making irrelevant garbage and then telling the world, you have to believe me. It has to be catching more mice. You have to be producing more stakes.