[lisper]

TL;DR: more talented people tend to move on to more lucrative gigs, leaving less talented people behind. The title draws an analogy to the Dead Sea, where water evaporates and leaves salt behind.

Really, that's all the article has to say. You're welcome.

[6510]

I see what you did there... I guess one can write 7 seas of text that might one day be useful to a man looking to eat a fish.

[causal]

Yeah that about covers it. I wonder if there's a term for metaphors that make something simple seem more complex.

[sircastor]

I know it’s bad form to comment on articles without reading them, but my guess from the title was that this was allegorical to shepherds burning Dead Sea scrolls because they didn’t know what they were/how valuable they were to the historical research community.