Right, but I don’t think the institutional decay is caused by things needing more money to produce or research. It’s caused by the need (desire?) to either mai

Right, but I don’t think the institutional decay is caused by things needing more money to produce or research. It’s caused by the need (desire?) to either maintain or grow the same rate of production or discovery over time. The disconnect between possible reality and economic expectation is the cause of institutional decay. Maybe a better term is “institutional dementia” Institutions are just groups of people, after all.