/lit/ - Literature

>>18651009
Nothing wrong with inherited wealth. If I cure cancer and the world's like "OMG we owe you so much what do you want in return" and I'm like "treat my kids and my grandkids well", wtf is wrong with that?

>engineers, talented artists, mathematician, physicists
They get fairly compensated for the value they provide. Engineering for example is a good ladder into the middle class. Sure there are lots of starving artists/mathematicians/physicists but that just means they didn't provide much value. Mathematics is actually a very interesting example. People don't realize how much low-hanging fruit there is in math, it's easy as fuck to prove new theorems once you know some basics. If some well-meaning ruler came out and declared every new theorem would be rewarded with a $10k stipend, or whatever, that would be exploited to the fuckin hilt. There would be mathematician sweatshops pumping out useless theorems day and night. Just like anything else, you need a market to decide what's valuable and what isn't. Most mathematics, physics, art is NOT very valuable.