That's the sound of a door being slammed very hard with no consideration of what you may get back in return.
The whole model of giving people tax money to do work is called research and is quite a large area and has produced some amazingly valuable things that you benefit from.
BTW I do see what you mean, but I have been trying to start a company for ages and getting the money together is just incredibly hard. It's also hard IT, not pet grooming or similar. It's difficult.
That's a good point, upvoted, however in my one experience of a government funded R&D project many years ago I was involved in, a bunch of universities was asked to produce a product.
There was no proper oversight. We produced nothing of value (and I'd like a post-mortem of why, but never got one). That was UK £2 million wasted.
I've no reason to suppose that company funded R&D is any better than govt. funded though.
The whole model of giving people tax money to do work is called research and is quite a large area and has produced some amazingly valuable things that you benefit from.
BTW I do see what you mean, but I have been trying to start a company for ages and getting the money together is just incredibly hard. It's also hard IT, not pet grooming or similar. It's difficult.