Timeline for Why are most of the researchers at the university or similar centers?
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| May 7, 2023 at 5:50 | comment | added | Zach Lipton | Keep in mind that even if you have someone who is sufficiently independently wealthy to not need to worry about money, they'd also need to be interested in research, part of a field that doesn't require too much in the way of facilities or equipment, good enough at it to make productive contributions to advance the state of knowledge, sufficiently hermit-like and motivated to want to do it largely alone, and so interested in the above that they choose to pursue independent research instead of anything else they could be doing with their rather flexible life. Not that many people fit the bill. | |
| May 4, 2023 at 11:11 | comment | added | Ander Biguri | @Yester the material I need for research is 1) Food 2) a place to live 3)some extra money to buy things I like. University jobs barely pay for that in many countries, and with the cost of living, we all need to work hard to get those things paid somehow. Even with no cost of research, the cost of "existing" can not be ignored, its not small. | |
| May 3, 2023 at 14:09 | history | edited | Bryan Krause♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 3, 2023 at 13:32 | comment | added | Bryan Krause♦ | @Yester Yes, your question seems to assume there are many people who want to do this and have the means yet do not; I'm not sure there's any evidence for that. | |
| May 3, 2023 at 13:28 | comment | added | Yester | Yes, I know that there should be no obstacles for such a person. However, it seemed strange to me not to see results from people like that. But, as you and other users have said, maybe few people fit to that. | |
| May 3, 2023 at 13:22 | comment | added | Bryan Krause♦ | @Yester Few people fit that description, seems like it's up to them to decide how to spend their money. Some choose to fund whole institutions, consider e.g. the Allen Institute (though they take in outside money as well). Others aim for space. Those ventures clearly depend on more than one person. Nothing is preventing an individual who wants to fund their own career in math and has the money to mitigate any obstacles from doing so. | |
| May 3, 2023 at 13:13 | comment | added | Yester | Thank you, although my question is focused on cases in which not too much material is necessary to work and people with enough wealth to not depend on a salary. | |
| May 3, 2023 at 12:56 | history | answered | Bryan Krause♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |