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It's fairly amazing the amount of labor that went into projects in the past. Now as the value of someone's time went up, it feels not economically feasible to

• berkes 3y ago
  > economically feasible Luckily it's a University project. And economic feasibility does not apply. Or should not. Unfortunately some universities do take this into consideration, rather than just scientific value.
• walthamstow 3y ago
  Not to mention that half of the people doing the projects, at least in Britain, were rentier aristocrats who didn't need to work
• paganel 3y ago
  The Baumol effect [1] all over again, I'm thinking about it more and more lately. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baumol_effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baumol_effect