alt Hacker NewsDoes getting paid more make people smarter?
Especially academia tend to do their work out of interest, their monetary gain isn't their primary goal
Does getting paid more make people smarter?
Especially academia tend to do their work out of interest, their monetary gain isn't their primary goal
When people with a particular aptitude and skillset can make 10x as much money doing job A than job B, there is a bias towards job A.
Of course, that doesn’t mean nobody will do job B for other, non-financial reasons.