[tvink]

You don't think the rest of the world is doing funded research?

[arjie]

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.

[8note]

certainly true, but if another currency is also the reserve currency, that country/group will be spending all that money

[SubiculumCode]

Or paid half as well