Before capitalism was serfdom… don’t think we wanna go in that direction…
The issue is figuring out an equitable system in a world where scarcity no longer really exists…
It’s a morality discussion as much as an economics one…

But these guys who also think Ayn Rand was a philosophical genius have jumped on this tripe with both feet.
Revolutions rarely end well for the kinds of people that seem to want to foment this one.

And it’s a stupid theory with no historical parallel or empirical evidence to point to it working. It comes from a mildly entertaining mishmash of historical era hitching called generational inheritance.

… and you do know that the SCOTUS ruled in 1943 that refusing to recite the pledge in the morning was protected “speech” under the 1st Amendment - schools do it, but participation is not compulsory

“Things that never happened for a hundred Alex”
see the SCOTUS decision in the other reply - if you went to a public school you had the option to not say anything (the teachers may not have told you, but the school administrators certainly wouldn’t suspend anyone for not reciting the pledge)

Rolling refrigerators from a dated kitchen

Google doesn’t know the difference between an adjunct and a full tenure track professor

All that said, your basic idea of sponsorship of unfettered thinking has merit - what universities should aspire to - and maybe some still do - sadly though, humanity seems to value marketability in all things - kind of why the creative thinkers are always the first ones kicked off the island

Patronage died out as attitudes about art and artists began to change over the course of the Enlightenment and the idea of art for art’s sake as expressions of individual insight into the human condition came to the fore…

Mostly… the whole idea of patronage was for the patrons to have visible demonstrations of their wealth and power… they routinely had their artists (who they mostly classed as little more than manual laborers) paint them into the artworks or use them as models for the sculptures…

And those artists painted exactly what their moneyed masters wanted painted or sculpted or written… they they did it with the tremendous skill that they did is a testament to their greatness - but they were paid commissions to do what the patrons wanted done.

Exactly! Claiming the credit for others’ generosity

Who do you think they ever paid to just sit and think???
They were the patrons of Machiavelli - not Casanova