The annual budget of the entire NSF is $8.28B. The NIH is $42B Google's net profit was $40B in 2020. Apple's was $94.6B in 2021. (all according to wikipedia).

The annual budget of the entire NSF is $8.28B. The NIH is $42B Google's net profit was $40B in 2020. Apple's was $94.6B in 2021. (all according to wikipedia). Edit: The above is net income, so AFTER paying all the exorbitant salaries. Apple alone makes enough money that it could fund pretty much all current publicly-funded science happening in the US at the current rate. That is a ridiculous amount of money, and publicly-funded science just cannot compete at that level. (Currently on publicly-funded grants. Underpaid relative to what I could make elsewhere, but happy to be contributing to the greater good rather than helping some advertising company).