Scientist For Pay?

Minutes before I wrote this post I read an article on Seed Magazine.com called The State of the Scientist by Steven Shapin. The topic of the article is about the modern image and/or state of the modern scientist. One of the facets of the image of a modern scientist is a scientist that works in the industry for pay. Before the 21st century, many scientists did not work for pay but as a self-financed researcher or scientist. In the case of modern scientists, more scientists work for pay or in the industry. The article also introduced the trend of scientists working for pay and how skeptics see it as sacrificing integrity. In my opinion the trend of scientists for pay is a good and a bad thing. In one respect it can help to create more effective products that significantly help society, on the other hand in a way it does kind of sacrifice the integrity of the scientist in general and also irrelevant findings and/or research is/are funded and wasted and is not put towards significant research and/or findings. Feel free to comment. Link to Article:http://seedmagazine.com/content/article/the_state_of_the_scientist/