IT is super hierarchical and requires immense political skills to get anything done.

My cousin works (sometimes) as a truck driver. He's certified for any size truck, flammable/biohazardous goods, the lot. He'd be making good money if he could stop telling his bosses to fuck off.

I was in IT for 20 years. In order to succeed, I had to become 50% therapist.

As someone who can see the flaws in the capitalist model and doesn't agree with it in its current form... This is just silly. In any socioeconomic system there will be limited resources. People will still have to convince those that control the resources to give them the resources. The biggest difference between science in a capitalist system versus in a socialist system is that the end result of the science might benefit the common person more.

For instance: Superfest. Near unbreakable drinking glasses made in Eastern Germany that didn't sell well internationally due to lack of profit potential. Basically, the entire glass industry revolves around the principle that glass can be broken. When your glass breaks, you buy a new one. But if your glass doesn't break then you don't need to buy a new one and therefore you do not. So if everyone buys Superfest then the industry dies since no one needs to buy glass any longer. And this is great for the people, great for the environment, but terrible if you're a profit driven company. But whether it's a state-owned endeavour or a for-profit organization, you'd still need to convince someone to invest in your work.

Capitalism is always the problem

Science was political in non-capitalistic societies, as well. That's the point of my second paragraph: science requires resources and however a society steers resources to productive uses, a scientist will need to advocate for their research in order for it to get done.