Profiteers and scientists

    I caught myself thinking that Trump is now acting in relation to science like a typical profiteer. Such profiteers came to power in the 80s and 90s in the USSR and Russia and simply stopped funding all the science they inherited from the previous government. Now this has led to the fact that there is almost no science in Russia, it is not popular and is not in demand.

    Where did the breakdown of the American miracle occur? When the state took over the financing of science. This is somewhat paradoxical, because scientists believed that it would always be like this and relaxed. But it was not always like this, let's remember that the first American innovators were themselves profiteers, for example, Edison. And when did the state take over the financing of science? During the Second World War and after it, because without such action it was impossible to make a nuclear bomb and create high-tech defense. Now it is all breaking down.