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Then separate out the basic science from the defense work which requires that bureaucratic oversight. Or direct that funding to universities. My main point is allowing monopolies because they direct their excess profits to research to hide their excess profits is just a complicated tax to fund basic research, which we would be better off spending directly on research without bloated executive salaries and distorted markets in e.g. search or browsers.



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