I disagree. Many phds go into industry which makes technological progress faster. While Funding for some research is limited but it is in our interest to trai

I disagree. Many phds go into industry which makes technological progress faster. While Funding for some research is limited but it is in our interest to train more scientists rather than less. The millions on Wall Street are applied physicists and mathematicians. This is a weird claim to make about being the best. Their research is easily computerized or you spend billions building particle accelerators. Science is not zero sum.