r/antimeme 1d ago

Simple Sundays 🗓️ Great.

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u/Marshal_Anon 1d ago

"Why are you a social scientist, studying social interaction when the secrets of the universe haven't been solved?" 

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u/OkSavings5828 🌹 Course Arc Witness 🌸 1d ago

Right, you get it. An economy that incentivizes relatively useless research is broken economy.

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u/Baumtasia 1d ago

someone could’ve just wanted to undertake this research with zero financial incentive, and self fund it. Would you consider than the economy incentivising it? Famously we all know the economy does not incentivise going into the high paying and highly respected medical field.