Many of the great inventions/discoveries in the history of science were not made for profit. Newton would not have been a better mathematician had he been paid

Many of the great inventions/discoveries in the history of science were not made for profit. Newton would not have been a better mathematician had he been paid more. Da Vinci would not have painted better had his profit margins been higher. Feynman's insights would not have been more profound had his desire to win been greater. Profit is not necessarily good or necessarily bad. There are cases where it's incentives are good. There are cases where it is bad.