>They're already not working for the same money they could be getting in industry, now they also have to eschew prestige in their own communities, or else they'

>They're already not working for the same money they could be getting in industry, now they also have to eschew prestige in their own communities, or else they're not driven by the pure intellectual pursuit of knowledge and science? I think the common form of the complaint is that the prestige-generating mechanism has is too decoupled from the scientific advances.