Mathematicians are pretty open about the fact that their field is unimportant and their research funding is coasting off of winning WWII with Enigma codebreakin

Mathematicians are pretty open about the fact that their field is unimportant and their research funding is coasting off of winning WWII with Enigma codebreaking. The only reason they deserve money is that they teach mandatory calculus to uninterested non-mathematicians.