• insurgentrat [she/her, it/its]@hexbear.net
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    3 days ago

    People can understand right and wrong without studying it.

    Most STEM PhDs are working for ordinary, banal, good. Testing water, improving infrastructure, serving coffee, trying to make stuff more efficient etc. Yeah a minority go into like banking and weapons and that is a horrible thing to do with the legacy of human knowledge but most are just people.

    • GaveUp [she/her]@hexbear.net
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      3 days ago

      Yea, especially the math related PhDs that are in academia and don’t do any industry work at all since that means they chose to not work for companies making 5+ times what they’re making in academia