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US universities need to re-think the 'publish or perish' dogma. It produces a lot of uninteresting papers and a lot of discontinued academic careers. The benefit of this system (presumably separating the wheat from the chaff) is questionable.
US universities need to re-think the 'publish or perish' dogma. It produces a lot of uninteresting papers and a lot of discontinued academic careers. The benefit of this system (presumably separating the wheat from the chaff) is questionable.
The question is incomplete ("contributing something positive or at least not actively doing harm"). Please define "good". To me, good is where you find something interesting and worth doing. Financial speculation makes the market more liquid and reduce the spread. You say you find that interesting. I would then call that "good". If it matches your definition of good, you may want to engage in that. If it does not mat…
Go there, learn about it, make some money while you're at it. Leave if you don't like it - it's not a sect.
The question is incomplete ("contributing something positive or at least not actively doing harm"). Please define "good". To me, good is where you find something interesting and worth doing. Financial speculation makes the market more liquid and reduce the spread. You say you find that interesting. I would then call that "good". If it matches your definition of good, you may want to engage in that. If it does not mat…
It's not hard to see where it comes from, but intelligent people should be able to see the financial sector with a bit more nuance than knee-jerk hatred. There are many good reasons not to enjoy working there, but hand-wavy self-certain assertions that everything that goes on there lands somewhere between net negative and plain evil is just disingenuous. Go there, learn about it , make some money while you're at it.…
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For most skillsets, the answer is: pick the career that makes the most money, figure out what the best charity is, and give most of your money to that charity. Trying to be philanthropic directly is usually less effective than making money and then paying others to do good on your behalf. On the other hand, maybe you can do more good directly, by working for a charity. In either case, you need serious research and nu…
For most skillsets, the answer is: pick the career that makes the most money, figure out what the best charity is, and give most of your money to that charity. Trying to be philanthropic directly is usually less effective than making money and then paying others to do good on your behalf. On the other hand, maybe you can do more good directly, by working for a charity. In either case, you need serious research and nu…
Have you tried? What's that based on? I know lots of people doing great direct work.
In my experience, money is NOT a good substitute for concerted, focused, long-term attention in a problem domain.
For most skillsets, the answer is: pick the career that makes the most money, figure out what the best charity is, and give most of your money to that charity. Trying to be philanthropic directly is usually less effective than making money and then paying others to do good on your behalf. On the other hand, maybe you can do more good directly, by working for a charity. In either case, you need serious research and nu…