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Science used to work this way too, didn't it? You'd be rich, or you'd have a wealthy benefactor.
by patcon 1y ago
Science used to work this way too, didn't it? You'd be rich, or you'd have a wealthy benefactor.
- whatshisface 1y agoTo go back in time before university endowments for intellectual work you'd find yourself in a monestary, with endowments from the nobility for intellectual work (copying texts and making those great illuminated manuscripts). As far as I know the model you're describing did apply to ancient Greece.