По­яс­не­ние. Science has always been a sensitive issue. Nowadays some people say it iis the first thing that should be financed, others consider it less important.

I tend to agree with the latter. Firstly, there is no doubt science is important and must be financed, but there are more urgent problems that we already have means to solve, like poverty or ecology, for instance. Scientific research is not needed to create another thousand of jobs, which is essentially a way to control poverty. Secondly, science is risky in economical terms, since the percentage of successful projects is far from one hundred. Very far, in fact.

However, there are people that think science must be the world's top priority. They say that science has made our lives as easy as they are now compared to the lives of our ancestors several hundred years ago, so we should keep pushing the progress to make life even easier and more pleasant.

Still, I cannot agree with those people. They are right about scientific discoveries making life easier, but it took decades to make use of those discoveries and thus improve people's lives, meanwhile mot of the world's population still lived by the old ways. If most of the financial resources go into scientific research instead of more urgent needs, soon most of the world will lie in ruins while a small group of the reachest people enjoy the results of the scientific progress, which is not the outcome everyone except for that group wants.

To wrap it up, I think it is safe to say that science is definitely not the top priority when it comes to distribution of the world's financial resources.