What would that look like? Asking for research purposes.

All I’m saying is that postdocs shouldn’t be living below the poverty line with a side of stop killing people.

I think you misspelled capitalism.

Because our (US) current priorities fuel a worldwide arms race, while real investment in basic sciences would benefit humanity and keep postdocs from starving. The entire NIH budget for everything is $47 billion, while the Department of Defense budget is $825 billion, $145 billion of which for R&D. You think we should be spending $100 billion per year more on killing people than on making people’s lives better?

Yes

Problem solved then! Everyone just needs to do killing people science in order to make a living.

Ah yes. Nice science and evil science.

Why not?

No, it only takes a long time because there’s so little to go around. Do you think defense funding takes months and years to award grants? No.

I sure wouldn’t call it scientific progress, if that’s what you’re implying.

It’s obvious how to make it better: spend as much money on scientific progress as we do on figuring out how to blow brown people up.

To be fair, they weren’t wrong

Funny, now it’s easy to check for birds.