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mk  ·  3987 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Peter Higgs: I wouldn't be productive enough for today's academic system

I do agree with his point, science has suffered for it. If you go to school for 28 years, and are obsessed with a slice of the universe that it takes years to even speak intelligently about, and you don't make a killing, maybe it's best to let you do what you do, and not to put a squeeze on you.

Productivity is not valuable. Only specific kinds of productivity are valuable, and busyness is not productivity.