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by brianwawok 1141 days ago
Deep pockets AND freedom to publish?

This will be like many other industries:

Make 100k a year at this noble job and better the knowledge of mankind

vs

Make 500k a year at a soulsucking corp job, doing research to better the rate at which we get people to click adds by 1%

Guess which jobs many great minds would take? I would take #2. At the end of the day, I can't feed my family with goodwill and back pats.

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Is the assumption of 5x the pay going to hold though in light of:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35813322