I agree with you. It is natural to think that this is a simple problem - give money to the very best university and get the best research. Unfortunately, like m

I agree with you. It is natural to think that this is a simple problem - give money to the very best university and get the best research. Unfortunately, like many things, it's not quite that simple. Is there any reason to think that research at MIT has been limited by lack of funding? That seems highly implausible to me. And if the answer is that MIT could hire additional researchers to do more research with that money, those researchers can do the same research with that money at many other schools. It's not clear to me that giving the money to MIT will result in any more research, and a good chance that it will result in less, because researchers at other universities currently are limited by financial constraints.