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Society pays CEO/music/football stars much better than Stephen Hawking and other good researchers. People like Stephen Hawking likely considers working as a CE
by silvestrov 4y ago
Society pays CEO/music/football stars much better than Stephen Hawking and other good researchers.
People like Stephen Hawking likely considers working as a CEO as a really boring job: just a lot of obvious decisions and tons of boring meetings. This kind of people will rather work as a badly paid researcher instead.
- zeroonetwothree 4y agohawking probably made a lot of money from his books. As for research I think the fact is that 99% of research is useless and doesn’t matter in the long term. So it makes sense that it’s not rewarded that highly. Meanwhile every LeBron James entertains millions.
- pas 4y agoeven that 1% of research has almost infinite value (but let's discount it, saying that as time goes on even hard scientific questions become easier thanks to ambient progress in other fields), whereas sport events are completely ephemeral and very fungible. and, while I don't want to make assumption about your preferences, for me the value in sports is exactly that "being there in the moment" aspect. watching it through a screen? nah.