I know tons of scientists, post-docs, lab heads. It's WAY too hard to be a scientist. The kind of salary and other sacrifices scientists are asked to make are

I know tons of scientists, post-docs, lab heads. It's WAY too hard to be a scientist. The kind of salary and other sacrifices scientists are asked to make are unfair and surely deter many to leave science. Science is the only thing moving everything forward and if the funding strategy is look for irrational people who will work insanely hard for next-to-nothing salaries...it doesn't sound like a great strategy.