[muuh-gnu]

Even if they all rode rusty bicycles, basic logic implies that they won't/can't bite the hand that feeds them simply because obviously nobody else would voluntarily feed them and they're (obviously) intelligent enough to realize this.

Its a synergy. The state provides the academia funds nobody else would voluntarily provide them. In return, academia produces statists. Cue vicious circle of win-win.

[Florin_Andrei]

"statism", "basic logic", absolutization of money - you're showing all the symptoms of the die-hard libertarian.