Editing FU Money (section)

=== 2022 ===

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|name=Eric Weinstein
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|content=The answer to getting science to work again is a smaller scientific community with the ability to hold minority positions for decades if necessary.

[[Academic Freedom|Academic freedom]] was a lot less expensive when it was guaranteed by institutions. Now it requires [[FU Money|FU money]] from which it’s starved.
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|content=Having been both in Academe and the private sector, I have learned something I cannot communicate:

A) The more you push science towards markets, the more it fails.

B) The more marketization makes science fail, the more capitalists want to starve it. 

https://jacobin.com/2018/07/capitalism-science-research-academia-funding-publishing
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|timestamp=12:24 AM · Mar 25, 2022
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|content=Increasingly, the solution to every science problem is seen through markets. 

X-prizes for science.</br>
Science DAOs.</br>
Crowdfunding for science.</br>
Micro grants.</br>
Science as a startup.

Anything *other* than recognizing our previous wisdom of insulating science &amp; scientists from markets.
|timestamp=12:30 AM · Mar 25, 2022
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|timestamp=12:38 AM · Mar 25, 2022
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