Brad Heintz on Nostr: nprofile1q…ze5g0 I think that's an important question. All I have for an answer is ...

nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpqky223zcc4q69d8t0me4vg5uw8mw0yxeukjgvz6h92laqnenr0ajsgze5g0 (nprofile…e5g0) I think that's an important question. All I have for an answer is a couple of intuitions. First, many of the problems seem harder, conceptually and computationally. Second, and probably more importantly, the financial unsustainability of academic life for working-class people (at least in the US, not sure about the situation elsewhere), combined with how lucrative the tech sector has been for people with STEM skills, has caused people who might have become scientists to move to the private sector.

As with everything, we've moved resources away from what's good for us all and toward the profit of a few.