The glorification of complex stuff in our society is a class specific distinction. The social status in professional circles given to scientists does not help p

The glorification of complex stuff in our society is a class specific distinction. The social status in professional circles given to scientists does not help pay rent. What signal this sends to me is that science is, and excepting a cold war arms race level of public funding always will be, nothing more than two broad groups: those without external material demands ( no need to pay rent, etc) the rare insane genius ( driven by lifelong obsession) Everyone else leaves for a real job once they realise they have bills to pay imho. Science is not part of our society, it is a fringe luxury indulged in by an elite social class that fuels itself with the pyramid scheme esque hordes of naïve young grad students, who are swiftly forced to choose between poverty and abandoning what they have wasted their youth training to become experts in. Or in other words, higher education is the greatest waste of human capital since the world wars.