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> A waste for the people doing it who are never going to be appropriately compensated for the value of their failure to society? Yes. Judging by their profiles

• jjoonathan 8y ago
  Yes, but if the scientific value capture problem were solved then science could scale appropriately rather than beg for charity. I was (and would be) much more valuable to society as a structural biologist than I am as a software engineer, but the market disagrees so vehemently that it's cost prohibitive for me to fight it, and the result is that we all lose. The reason why it disagrees is not hard to understand and not particularly difficult to categorize as a market failure rather than a "hard truth." I can't really think of a good way to actually address the problem, though, so mostly this just amounts to venting.