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Money is fungible.

• bilbo0s 2y ago
  And? The one thing has nothing to do with the other. Football funds itself. That's why the coach makes so much money. If research funded itself, researchers would make a lot of money.
• costigan 2y ago
  Only if the organization with the money wants to do that. Flip it around. Do you think the sports program at any major university pays for physics research facilities (or any topic outside of sports medicine)?
  • fooker 2y ago
    >Only if the organization with the money wants to do that. Great, this should be a enough of an argument then for the federal government to decide how grant money is used.
    • costigan 2y ago
      It does. That's what the negotiation on overhead rates is for.
      • ModernMech 2y ago
        A lot of this discussion is people who don’t understand the system reinventing it from first principles as they slowly come to terms with the nuance.
• fnordpiglet 2y ago
  Not when double entry accounting is involved.