But there's so few of those academic jobs. Plenty of kids have the curiosity but won't want to take part in the tenure race. Emmanuel Derman wrote about the ma

But there's so few of those academic jobs. Plenty of kids have the curiosity but won't want to take part in the tenure race. Emmanuel Derman wrote about the mass of PhDs in the 1980s who went into finance. This will just keep happening. Plus you don't need to get a PhD at all to be one of those guys who solves problems.