The first thing that came to mind was Beezid. Basically we'll end up with countless teams of researchers attempting to solve problems and only a tiny fraction

The first thing that came to mind was Beezid. Basically we'll end up with countless teams of researchers attempting to solve problems and only a tiny fraction of them being paid for their time. I agree with the article and propose that we should be doing the exact opposite - finding a way to fund more garage tinkerers. Just add up the risk of failure in tech (at least 90%), the fact that so much of our daily workday is broken up into frivolous minutia, and that researchers spend on the order of half their time fundraising. It should be obvious that the problem is underemployment, and that the way to remedy that is to go from top-down to bottom-up organizational structures. In other words, recognize the dignity of work and not just the financial outcome.