Molson Hart

If majority of academics vote Democrat, it is not random: they 1) don't have skin in the game, (others take risks for them) 2) are not productive members of society but want to lecture others on what to do 3) have steady income etc.https://twitter.com/paulkrugman/status/934863186494459904 …

Academics, when they leave academia become at best back-office support staff, not decision-makers. Not like the grocery store owner who owns his own risk.

Footnote: Lektchuring Birds How to Fly in Antifragile discusses the myth that science -> technology, rather than reverse.

Note that neither medicine nor engineering are academia-driven pursuits, rather practice and apprenticeship-based.

The odds of an academic “researcher” producing anything eventually used by society is of the order of .00001%. That includes scientists. The odds for a baker: 100%

Errata: Meant 1 in 100,000. Also note that the net contribution of economics/finance is negative.