> You Can't Buy Someone Else Caring about Your Problems This is easy: when you give people a huge amount of money to care about your problem, they will. This,

> You Can't Buy Someone Else Caring about Your Problems This is easy: when you give people a huge amount of money to care about your problem, they will. This, of course, does not imply that they will be able to solve them. > You Can't Buy Understanding of Your Problems This is less easy, but also possible: spend sufficient money so that highly intelligent people (think graduated mathematicians or theoretical physicists) will organize their life around understanding your problem. Because they are highly smart, they will very likely understand after some amount of time (hey, understanding highly complicated stuff by reading papers is what you do in graduate school). --- So the problem rather is: you are not willing to spend that much money or are far too impatient on people (i.e. you want a "fast solution" instead of someone who really deeply wants to understand everything from ground up as you do when in math research).