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> How much smarter than you are they if you've taken an effective shortcut to getting paid significantly more while doing a lot less work? Being smart and how
by TacticalCoder 3y ago
> How much smarter than you are they if you've taken an effective shortcut to getting paid significantly more while doing a lot less work?
Being smart and how much you make aren't related. There are researchers working at universities in Europe being paid miserable salaries and yet making incredible discoveries (like medical ones) and these are incredibly smart people.
Meanwhile there are people with only a few neurons connecting raking in millions on "only fans".
And, no, the later aren't smarter than the former.
- KeplerBoy 3y agoThat's kind of the European dream. You work at uni, have fun pursuing your reasearch and earn enough money to rent a somewhat nice flat in the city. What else could anyone want? Heck, today i saw Sepp Hochreiter sitting in the tram on his way to uni. He could do anything in the world, yet he chooses to live the european academic life.
- nocsi 3y ago> Being smart and how much you make aren't related. There are researchers working at universities in Europe being paid miserable salaries and yet making incredible discoveries (like medical ones) and these are incredibly smart people. Think about it, who's funding these researchers you're celebrating? I'd argue being smart is linked to money. You don't need to spend all your time exploiting the markets if you're smart, but just enough to build a resource pool that can enable your endeavors. People work with what they got - in your latter example, they're selling their body. If academics were functionally smart, then it's a simple task for them to be able to exploit and win against a capitalist market.