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goobster · 454 days ago · link · · parent · post: “Entire areas of our shared history will never be known because no one will receive a living wage to uncover and study them.”
I feel this parallels with things like disease research; there's a shitload of money available for anyone that can insert the word "cancer" into their disease research, but very little for someone researching Bell's Palsy, or other less-well-known diseases. The business drives which research pays the best. And academics need to buy Ramen noodles, too, so they go where the funding is. Chicken or egg?