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> Every effort needs to be a part of the pipeline of demand and supply

It's almost unthinkable the amount of technology and innovations we would have never gotten if this was actually true in practice. So many inventions happened because two people happen to be in the same place for no particular reason, or someone noticed something strange/interesting and started going down the rabbit-hole for curiosities sake, with demand/supply having absolutely zero bearing on that.

I got to be honest, it's slightly strange to see something like that stated here out of all places, where most of us dive into rabbit-holes for fun and no profit, all the time, and supply/demand is probably the least interesting part of the puzzle when it comes to understanding and solving problems.

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You need to take it with current context, not with the nostalgic past when pure research happened out of curiosity. World is more purpose-driven now. Scientists are employees of some establishment with goals that are driven by the funding. If you are funded for doing Fourier-like research that must be for patents which are fully commercial-goal driven.

Everyone is connected to financial strings like puppets. If you are doing research without financial connection, you must be very rich, having a personal lab, having lots of free time, or not having family duties and worldly goals. Those are rare people, just like how wealthy countries had more scientists in the past centuries.