I'll make the argument that the scientific community should be allowed to freeload.
It is highly inefficient to make the best and brightest minds do some day job that could be done by someone else. Or working on grants to justify their work.
One example of how this could work is Charles Darwin--I'm in the States, but I believe he is the fellow on the British 10 pound note. He didn't have to work--another famous name associated with him is Wedgewood. But he wrote the highly influential book "Origin of the Species."
15 May 2017, 6:36 am
