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by Joker_vD 16 days ago
Well, for most "someplace else", the choice is =$0 too.
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You don't think the rest of the world is doing funded research?
Interestingly, if the US stopped spending you’d need the top 17 remaining countries to double their spending to absorb the American science industry. Doubling is a tall order and seventeen is a large number. Most likely fewer scientists will find employment in government funded academia if this came to be.
certainly true, but if another currency is also the reserve currency, that country/group will be spending all that money
Or paid half as well