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Disagreed. It isn't a matter of patience, it's all about incentives.

Almost all people who are smart enough to make a difference aren't foolhardy enough to make terrible economic decisions that will drastically reduce their quality of life.

The existence of economics PhD students still baffles me.




> The existence of economics PhD students still baffles me

Interestingly, I have met many in the sciences that feel the same about computer science.


Perhaps we can chalk it up to the economic ignorance of CS grad students. There's no such explanation for econ students. :)


They want to be professors?


Being a grad student and wanting to be a professor is like being 6'2" and wanting to play in the NBA.


Presumably some grad students are the equivalent Shaq or Kevin Garnett, though.

After all, professors are all drawn from the ranks of former graduate students who finished their degrees...




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