>Very little actual good and a lot of bad science has come from public funding. Many, many private and public universities depend on federal grants to do the i

>Very little actual good and a lot of bad science has come from public funding. Many, many private and public universities depend on federal grants to do the important research in every field. Perhaps what you say about capitalism is correct, but an increasingly automated society can probably do without it. Look up post-scarcity economics.