[randomguy12]

- grants are worth less than they were before (https://drugmonkey.scientopia.org/2020/12/16/updating-the-er...)

-Profs receive money from several other sources - especially patents and are not reliant on as grants for incomes. As such I don't believe it's a massive issue

-Uni's take massive cut from grants (+50% in some cases) so that would be a starting point, especially since a grant now is worth less than one from 2001. (https://www.quora.com/How-much-of-a-research-grant-does-a-un...)

-Labs rarely get money from undergrad fees which are already insanely high

-Science at the current scale (at least in my area of biology) would stand to benefit from more grad students, the infrastructure just isn't there. This is ignoring the pyramid scheme that is grad school.