If all basic needs were met (food, shelter, and medical), could socialism work (without the need for wars or famine to reduce the population)?
If all basic needs were met (food, shelter, and medical), could socialism work (without the need for wars or famine to reduce the population)?
Universities and research institutes are not profit driven. They do most of the innovating. Patenting someone else’s invention and then selling it for a profit isn’t innovation.
Obviously you don’t know how research funding works. But worst, you don’t know what motivates people to work hard to earn a research position.