a common pattern w academics is discomfort converting from explore mode to exploit mode. (correlation bc academia is being paid to explore, so bypasses having to make the choice)
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though virtuous for someone who literally cannot care about secular things like money (van gogh) it seems like a dysfunction for most. especially if they’re ACTIVELY trying to make money w stocks/crypto/etc...
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because the act of exploitation cannot be integrated into a healthy world view, the academic institution acts as a middleman doing the exploitation to buffer and keep hands clean
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once outside the institution, the direct need for exploitation can lead to a desire for retreat to a more utopian world without exploitation but that kind of eden was only made possible by the middleman AND turning a blind eye to the indirect exploitation
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