[sjg007]

We do need a big ARPA like investment in research. Right now we depend on defense spending but we are simply not spending enough on research.

[blip54321]

MIT has an endowment of $20M per professor.

We spend plenty on research, just inequitably, and with bizarre pyramid schemes.

[closeparen]

I will be very worried for the future of civilization when these hundred-year institutions that were supposed to be at least partly self-funding acquiesce to the popular demand to bankrupt themselves over not even a generation. MIT could spend that much… for 8 years. Then what?