It feels the technician talking!
As a father, I have always given priority to
first To meet the basic needs of my children, and when my budget permitted, I devoted the surplus to secondary needs.
Our country is over-indebted in an abysmal way for wanting to "
Fart higher than it has the asshole With sumptuous expenses to make cocorico with other countries, such as the Concorde, for the sole use of the fried and which the poorest paid with their taxes, while they were refused to pay them their dental expenses or glasses.
Being more humanistic than technophile, all these secondary expenses, even useless to the happiness of the populations, should have been their priority to be consecrated.
How many Ph. D (Doctor of Physics) are found at the minimum wage or almost? When they manage to have a rarely lasting job ... in short, it's a mess of monstrous and quite shameful "brains" (for France)! It is also an economic waste since training is expensive ...
It is just a mess when you train people for areas where you do not need them. I remember that there were 50 years ago, engineers could not find a place at their level of qualification and had to fall back on unsaturated trades, and therefore at wage levels (to see only this aspect) largely Less than they could have expected (according to the mirrors to the larks that had been agitated in front of their nose.)
In short, a ministry of research enhancement might be welcome
Who would do, as usual, only support those who can do without them (but always on the lookout for subsidies), and who "forget" the little ones who have difficulties, outside the system, to valorize Their creative potential. See Remondo, Ha Pham, and others (your own patent!) Who will probably never see the light of day (even by going into debt "to death"),
"We make science with facts, like making a house with stones: but an accumulation of facts is no more a science than a pile of stones is a house" Henri Poincaré