[kristopolous]

Right. It's not a discount to the science or discipline but instead to the weird used car men snake oil games we need to play to move the money around.

The royal society and other 18th century science institutions had similar problems. Carnival barkers would shock people with leyden jars, hidden wires and do Stephen Grays flying boy experiment as an amusement to raise money to do actual legitimate science.

Some of the early Copley medal winners were impoverished borderline homeless people who couldn't afford the membership dues to scientific societies. They've got like scientific theories and galaxies named after them today

In Japan, the government has a special status for accomplished people where you get a lifetime monthly stipend so that, say fine poets can write poetry without worrying money. (人間国宝: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Living_National_Treasure_(Ja...)

It'd be nice if things that were valued could be funded without having to hustle so much