I think the poster is suggesting that if people didn't have to work for money, many scientists would continue doing scientific research for free, and they'd hav

I think the poster is suggesting that if people didn't have to work for money, many scientists would continue doing scientific research for free, and they'd have more time to spend on it because they wouldn't have to play the grants game. This might actually be true for a field like math, where you just need paper/computer to make a major discovery. Probably not for a field like biology that involves a lot of web lab materials -- paying the humans is only a tiny sliver of the cost of making a discovery in the biosciences.