As a tiny minority who 'defected' (at least from the consumer side of academia), it was probably closer to the offered product is increasingly outdated/ineffici

As a tiny minority who 'defected' (at least from the consumer side of academia), it was probably closer to the offered product is increasingly outdated/inefficient, no matter what the price, to exploring things in general. I think that for the tiny minorities, finding ways to exploit the dynamics of any social concept, will enable one to obtain value from the grey areas of such concepts that most people aren't willing to operate in.