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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Very few kids live in the DCUM bubble and can afford to major in something frivolous knowing that their school’s prestige and parental connections will ensure they do well anyway. Most kids are forced to be practical.[/quote]
Yet many study the sciences...Not to be anti-intellectual, but many scientific pursuits are purely meaningless, require a PhD, and pay $30k-40k[/quote]
So friggin true it hurts. Studying physics was great but possibly one of the most useless things I have done in my life. It is mostly a field that generates no profit and has been consistently a mess for the pass 50 years with little progress to the fundamental questions still lurking. Overall, I would not recommend a science degree over a mathematics or engineering pursuit.[/quote]

Even worse is when scientists need to fund their own labs. I know a few highly intelligent 'unemployed' ones right now. It's rough.[/quote]

Not just funding their own labs but funding the institution via their labs. That is a very broken system. [/quote]

You want someone should throw money at someone who fancies themselves the world's leading expert at whatever they do, to just do whatever they want, for decades? 
Why aren't you funding a scientist? [/quote]

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