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Disagreed. It isn't a matter of patience, it's all about incentives. Almost all people who are smart enough to make a difference aren't foolhardy enough to mak
by bhickey 14y ago
Disagreed. It isn't a matter of patience, it's all about incentives.
Almost all people who are smart enough to make a difference aren't foolhardy enough to make terrible economic decisions that will drastically reduce their quality of life.
The existence of economics PhD students still baffles me.
- shadowfox 14y ago> The existence of economics PhD students still baffles me Interestingly, I have met many in the sciences that feel the same about computer science.
- bhickey 14y agoPerhaps we can chalk it up to the economic ignorance of CS grad students. There's no such explanation for econ students. :)
- theorique 14y agoThey want to be professors?
- bhickey 14y agoBeing a grad student and wanting to be a professor is like being 6'2" and wanting to play in the NBA.
- theorique 14y agoPresumably some grad students are the equivalent Shaq or Kevin Garnett, though. After all, professors are all drawn from the ranks of former graduate students who finished their degrees...