I've heard a lot of stories from friends of mine who work in the field, and the picture they paint is that a big problem is bureaucracy/'managerial class'. It's

I've heard a lot of stories from friends of mine who work in the field, and the picture they paint is that a big problem is bureaucracy/'managerial class'. It's a very similar and equally ugly picture that is painted by the friends I have in academia. What I find interesting (and tragic) is that it doesn't seem to primarily be about funding, but rather about the system that has grown around them, full of inefficiencies and 'false' measurement-based methodology.