Plenty of people who love science also want to be able to go on holidays, buy houses and have children. They want to live the kinds of lives people of their soc

Plenty of people who love science also want to be able to go on holidays, buy houses and have children. They want to live the kinds of lives people of their social class do. Your proposal would turn science into a career for the kind of people who were monks or nuns in the Middle Ages. Back then that was the way to live the life of the mind and the outside alternatives were much worse. Things have changed.