The odds of an academic "researcher" producing anything eventually used by society is of the order of .00001%. That includes scientists. The odds for… - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

It takes a certain type of person to waste intelligent concentration on classroom/academic problems. These are lifeless bureaucrats who can muster sterile motivation. Some people can only focus on problems that are REAL, not fictional textbook ones.

Your duty is to scream those truths that one should shout but that are merely whispered.

Further, in countries where wealth comes from rent-seeking, political patronage, or regulatory capture (which, I remind the reader, is how the powerful and the insiders use regulation to scam the public, or red tape to slow down competition), wealth is seen as zero-sum.*2