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> The Nobel prize is aimed at the general public...

Which is okay. The Nobel prize is okay.

> This way, at least once a year, the everyday layperson hears about scientific discoveries.

Spot on.

The problem we have is that the everyday layperson hears very little about scientific discoveries. The scientists themselves, one in a million of them, can get a Nobel prize. The rest, if they are lucky, get a somewhat okay salary. Sometimes better than that of a software engineer. Almost always worse working hours.

But I suppose it's all for the best. Imagine a world where a good scientist, one that knows everything about biology and protein folding, gets to avoid cancer and even aging, while the everyday layperson can only go to the doctor...



> Sometimes better than that of a software engineer

There is a reason so many of us work as software engineers now; I earn about 5x more than I would as a university lecturer/assistant professor.


That would be a good incentive to become a good scientist


At least one American Nobel laureate has had to sell his nobel prize medal to pay for medical costs in their old age.

Just insane.




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