Make wealthy benefactors cool again
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For example, it's basically an unspoken rule at many universities that in order to get tenure in biomedical research you need a certain number of renewed RO1 grants. I can see a grim future where scientists have to have a certain number of patrons to be considered for tenure.
"Everyone must be kept an institutional pet forever in order to make life a bit less godawful for the extant institutional pets."
