Thanks for the thoughtful reply, which was much better than my presumptuous comment deserved. I did my time in Academia as well, and the results were a PhD I d

Thanks for the thoughtful reply, which was much better than my presumptuous comment deserved. I did my time in Academia as well, and the results were a PhD I don't use, and the skills to live cheaply on a TA/RA stipend. It's a hard road, and it's hard to fault someone for not taking it. Still, it's a shame to see so much talent going into parasitic tech jobs when they could instead be unironically "making the world a better place."