Selling TV wall mounts online is not a very great contribution to human progress You speak like a person who has never had a grant proposal turned down. Congra

Selling TV wall mounts online is not a very great contribution to human progress You speak like a person who has never had a grant proposal turned down. Congratulations! May you continue to enjoy your life in the ivory tower until retirement. However, for better understanding of how other people's lives work you may want to google Maslow's hierarchy of needs, where you will encounter the observation that a person who doesn't have a secure source of food and shelter often has a lot of trouble caring about their contribution to "human progress". A lot of people will hand you money in exchange for TV wall mounts. There are a lot fewer people who will hand you money in exchange for research data on ferrofluids, and there are a lot of people in line for that money.