If government research funding (NSF/NIH) were significantly cut, positive outcomes might include: (1) shift toward private/philanthropic research models, (2) focus on applied problems matching societal needs, (3) emergence of new dominant research powerhouse (e.g., China), or (4) distributed private funding replacing centralized government funding, though Church does not advocate for cuts and notes this invokes 'hypercapitalism' with attendant social pathologies