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I think that people like Sam Altman, Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, etc. can truly contribute to funding more science. For starters they can ask companies they f
by piokoch 7y ago
I think that people like Sam Altman, Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, etc. can truly contribute to funding more science.
For starters they can ask companies they fund to start paying taxes in some other place than Jersey, Cayman Islands, Luxembourg or any other tax heaven.
Even more, they can start paying taxes themselves without passing their income through bogus "foundations", "funds", etc.
One off donation that many companies are doing now "for the sake of the virus" is a nice PR stunt but does not change anything in the long run.
- fortydegrees 7y agoWhat makes you think the government is more efficient at distributing money than Sam, Bill and Mark?
- tucosan 7y agoFunding of early fundamental and clinical research rarely comes from VC capital, since the probability for a positive ROI is quite low. This is why early research is mostly funded by governments. Sadly, a lot of conditions are not properly researched due to lack of funding. Some governments are better at distributing funds than others. The current US administration isn’t.