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Is $1 Million respectable?

• wongarsu 5y ago
  Can money buy respectability? If I awarded $1 Million to a random person every year, receiving that award wouldn't make that person more accomplished, and the award wouldn't be mentioned outside the local newspaper. On the other hand an award that gives no money but consistently awards the best researcher in the field can be very noteworthy. What the $1 million does accomplish is make people pay attention, so everyone will much more quickly reach a verdict whether this is a price worth paying attention to. But two years is a bit quick for that verdict.
  • newsbinator 5y ago
    > Can money buy respectability? Definitely!
    • adrian_mrd 5y ago
      Hello Golden Globes and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association!
  • Igelau 5y ago
    If you give me $1 million, I promise I'll respect you.
  • melony 5y ago
    Just tie it to a stochastic metric like random acts of kindness and make a big overblown press release about it. The Nobel peace prize speaks for itself on how useless metrics empower the well connected in creating prestige.