One appealing thing to me about math is how egalitarian it is. It doesn't matter where ideas come from, they are probably right or wrong. It is (maybe unhealthi

One appealing thing to me about math is how egalitarian it is. It doesn't matter where ideas come from, they are probably right or wrong. It is (maybe unhealthily) rewarding to see critics acting like its another discipline where the senior or otherwise higher status person's opinion has more weight, only to make themselves look ridiculous. Contrast this with so many workplace things where senior people say dumb or incorrect stuff all the time but there is not the same objective way to call them out on it.