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Tech companies and the corporate and startup world in general have proven to be more dynamic. If you are smart, driven, and have a 'get sh!t done' personality,
by pimpleypumpkin 3y ago
Tech companies and the corporate and startup world in general have proven to be more dynamic.
If you are smart, driven, and have a 'get sh!t done' personality, are you going to waste your time with the kind of rules obsessed tattle-tale types that predominate in academia? In the real world, if you create something awesome, you get paid, and you get to do what you love. In academia, you get rewarded for bullsh*t that no one is going to bother to replicate and spend your time filling out paperwork (grants). Choose your own adventure.
- aidenn0 3y ago> In the real world, if you create something awesome, you get paid, and you get to do what you love. You and I live in very different "real worlds" and I feel like my "real world" is well above average.
- 8b16380d 3y agoSounds just like tech companies tbh.
- beanjuiceII 3y agoChoose your own adventure but please don't ask me to pay your academia bills ;_;
- layer8 3y agoNobody pays you in the corporate or startup world if what you do isn’t monetizable, preferably in the short term. And the measure of “awesome” there is how much and how quickly it can be monetized. It seems you haven’t understood the purpose of academia.
- pimpleypumpkin 3y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_Labs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_Labs
- layer8 3y agoBell Labs is not the corporate or startup world, and it was a rather exceptional phenomenon. It also hasn’t produced much significant work anymore in the last twenty years or so.
- shortsunblack 3y agoAnd Bell Labs existed mainly because of the taxation system of US. They needed to do R&D spend to use as a tax write-off. That's why the most productive years of American tech were the years with highest rates of taxation.
- etrautmann 3y agoThis is overly cynical and overly reductive.
- lupire 3y agoThe high energy fundamental physics startup scene isn't as dynamic as you are thinking.
- j7ake 3y agoSorry but most start ups are completely dependent on VC funding. CEOs ask for money for VCs, get enough results to ask for next round of funding and so on. Start up and academia both require money from external sources that are not directly the consumers.