Generally i agree that paying more is unlikely to resolve much. Fixing the incentives might, however funding comes from very few places and they have their own

Generally i agree that paying more is unlikely to resolve much. Fixing the incentives might, however funding comes from very few places and they have their own incentives => lobbied goals or profit-motivated. One might argue that money is a prioritization method. I'd argue that having one metric (amount of money) makes you susceptible to single-metric problems: optimization of everything to the point of meaninglessness, critical dependence on the stability of that metric's underlying present & future value. Defects in the currently implemented financial system (exploitable by evolving technologies) might lead to larger systematic failures and less robustness.