[kahrl]

Capital is usually rewarded, and rewards are pretty well correlated with capital.

[inglor_cz]

Depends on the sort of rewards.

Saudi Arabia does not seem to be rewarding scientists or inventors and doesn't consequently get any significant scientific results at home, even though the country is obscenely rich.

[xyzzyz]

Ah yes, the US universities are well known to hire the wealthiest elites as researchers. Poor foreign grad students are virtually absent from US universities.

[kahrl]

What are you on about? If you read the parent comments, we are talking about country-wide generalisms.

[xyzzyz]

Which are clearly false when applied to the actual topic of discussion, so why bring them up?