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My point was that it's not a lack of skills and inclination.

• antisthenes 10y ago
  For every postdoc out of those 10, there's a 100 graduates fighting for a position and 1000 undergrads fighting for an internship. At any given time slice, skills in a given field are a pyramid. If we assume that the unsolved problems require the highest level of skill to be approached and solved, then there will _always_ be a shortage of problem-solvers (as the problems left become increasingly more difficult and complex) So yes, it is a lack of skills.
  • cousin_it 10y ago
    There's tons of very simple problems in the world, and tons of people who would be willing to solve them, if only they could get paid for that. That's the limiting factor, not skills.