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1. Because the rainmakers handle the money. 2. Because the scientists are taking little risk compared to the founders and investors who build the institutions
by mnemonicsloth 17y ago
1. Because the rainmakers handle the money.
2. Because the scientists are taking little risk compared to the founders and investors who build the institutions that support their research.
3. Because humans are hard-wired to respect rainmaking and distrust science. Social behavior has been humanity's evolutionary killer app for the last 1500 centuries. Science has existed for maybe 5.
- pw0ncakes 17y ago1. Upsetting, but true. One major virtue of many ancient societies is that they had social checks and balances that put those with talent and intelligence in positions of higher status and more power than those who happened to incidentally have the money. Ours fails in that regard. 2. The founders are not mediocrities. The people who come in later and use social manipulation to control resources they didn't create are the mediocrities. 3. Interesting and reasonable point.
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