I don’t think you understand how screwed up the academic job market is. PhDs students are funded because they provide cheap(ish) labor for a professor’s lab, and it’s in professors’ interest to take on a lot more students than can have a long-term career in science. Science is a popular enough career to have its own “following your dreams” problem.
I don’t think you understand how screwed up the academic job market is.
Science PHDs usually get useful skills that make them employable outside academia that someone who fails at being a sport star or musician doesn’t get.
Furthermore I think that our society benefits from investing more resources into solving biology while it doesn’t benefit from more people wanting to become sport stars.
I don’t think you understand how screwed up the academic job market is. PhDs students are funded because they provide cheap(ish) labor for a professor’s lab, and it’s in professors’ interest to take on a lot more students than can have a long-term career in science. Science is a popular enough career to have its own “following your dreams” problem.
Science PHDs usually get useful skills that make them employable outside academia that someone who fails at being a sport star or musician doesn’t get.
Furthermore I think that our society benefits from investing more resources into solving biology while it doesn’t benefit from more people wanting to become sport stars.