> while a lot of that funding gets redirected back to universities, a healthy amount of it goes directly towards research that all of us benefit from tremendous

> while a lot of that funding gets redirected back to universities, a healthy amount of it goes directly towards research that all of us benefit from tremendously. It's a crime that all of that money isn't accessible to people outside of universities... > So people get the impression that there's these scientists out there playing around with aquariums and getting paid millions to do it. I mean... that's the optimistic case. At least in your imaginary scenario there's actual work happening from 9am to 10:30am and from 3:00pm to 5:00pm...