Yes, I was actually expecting the cartoon to go in that direction. Academia: "You're going to be modestly famous in mathematics textbooks!" Business: "OMG your

Yes, I was actually expecting the cartoon to go in that direction. Academia: "You're going to be modestly famous in mathematics textbooks!" Business: "OMG your brilliant code [1] has saved me three hours of work per day and generated an additional $1M in revenue. Here, have a raise." But this is a cartoon specificially about deep magic: About the bittersweet joy of discovering something great that only the well-trained can understand. It's not about the money, and it isn't even about happiness in general: It's about a specific sort of happiness and how delimited it is. --- [1] i.e. "the CRUD app that you copied from the framework documentation in one afternoon". But a well-placed simple CRUD app is a godsend. Businesspeople don't care about methods, they only care about results, but by god are they happy with results.