[mjburgess]

Perhaps, more precisely, it's a shame that governments turned research funding into a private sector game like start-up funding.

It seems no mystery why western governments are saying insane things like they need to be competitive in the quantum computing space: their frontal-lobes (the research industry) has been hijacked by the hype machines formerly constrained to the private sector.

[cycomanic]

This really it's the nail on the head and it has other consequences.

I was talking with a colleague about how it is to lead a research group and essentially it is very much like running a start up always in the phase of trying to attract funding without the prospect of things ever becoming self sustainable and there being a great monetary reward.