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Based on what I hear from my colleagues' experiences, most of them still want to continue doing research, but there aren't enough research jobs and funding available for all of them.
In life, we can all be artists or scientists, as long as you have:
Wealthy parents.
Yep. There’s a whole world of people happy to work very hard on research for the rest of their lives … and instead we have them writing emails wrangling spreadsheets for … ??
Sometimes “shitty” work needs to be done, obviously … but I think it’s far less obvious that the pool of things that need to be done lies entirely in the random inefficient shit the business world just accepts. Instead, that’s just where the money flows.