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Good, fuck the US. I would hate to be a scientist in the US. What would you even study? How to make diabetics buy Coke?
It's probably more lucrative for highly educated americans to go into finance than do actually useful things
someone told me once that at least half of the people studying fluid dynamics go on to model the stock market rather than anything scientifically interesting
So many talented/cool mathematicians I went to college with are now just getting boatloads of money being "data analysts/scientists" for consulting firms or startups. It's really a shame
Imagine how soul crushing that must be
Yup. I know a couple of people with PhDs in engineering and sciences and the only way for them to pay back their massive student debts is to go work in finance.
hahahhahahahHHhHhh its more than that
source: my ass
Finance capital maintaining dominance over industrial capital as the rate of profit declines?
who could've predicted this.
It is. The average new grad quant (not just the PhDs, even the bachelors') salary at a top hedge fund is literally more than twice the average tenured math/physics/CS professor salary at a top school (though lots of tenured professors have a ton of lucrative advisory/consultant side hustle positions with corporations)
My friend rides a boat and collects samples in the ocean. She says it gets really depressing because so much climate change data.
There's this couple of beautiful books by John Steinbeck documenting his ride-along for research trips with his best friend who was a marine biologist, and they sound like the raddest thing you could do. I guess it becomes less fun when everything around you is dying.
I was following the restoration of the boat they sailed on for a while until they stopped posting videos, but it was a cool trip.