Pure math phd here, now working in finance. On a personal level I wish I could've been a research professor. But on an objective level, in pure math the invis

Pure math phd here, now working in finance. On a personal level I wish I could've been a research professor. But on an objective level, in pure math the invisible hand of the market is acting correctly. There's already so much amazing pure math published, you could devote your whole life just to understanding 1/100th of the math published in the 1990s, to say nothing of the stuff published in 2016. We don't need more basic researchers right now. Sucks though that a lot of people (like me) have to watch a life dream crumble, though.