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> and more people who are motivated by the impact of their work (of whom there are plenty, and they're just as good as the financially motivated ones).

Nobody does the work for the sake of doing the work.

People work for a combination of financial reward and social status, and they'd use that as a metric to measure how much are they winning compared with the other 8 billion people on the planet

There is only a very very tiny percentage of people who are happy with just citations and the tepid approval of other academics

So if you roll back financial reward all the way down , then you have to pump social status all the way up.

It's going to be even worse. The cult of Steve Jobs and Elon Musk and Donald Trump would be the normal and would trickle all the way down.