I would say: 100 years ago the education and financial support for scientific research by European-descended upper middle class men was a thing. 50 years ago

I would say: 100 years ago the education and financial support for scientific research by European-descended upper middle class men was a thing. 50 years ago I wasn't expecting it to come back, it wouldn't have helped me anyway, overall scientific opportunities were far worse by then and the trend has continued. I wasn't waiting around for an uptick, I just started right away putting in the effort to try and compensate. And I agree with this completely: >There are certainly many geniuses obsessively researching into areas that stimulate their intellectual interest today that wouldn't have had the opportunity to do so back then. There is so much brilliance in so many cultures through so many millennia, it can be seen that education and financial support are not even essential for genius, mainly for documenting, recognizing, and leveraging the influence of a very very small percentage of geniuses through history, only those few whose works were preserved and/or applied. Surviving largely within a system of lesser thinkers whose works were better preserved and/or more stongly applied. Which is why I think >inventing new types of consumer electronics can be a good thing if the consumer is given careful enough consideration.