I just cannot help but notice that this is exactly what writers/artists have been told about their dreams for decades if not centuries.
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Dr. Catherine Macdonald
“Don’t give up on your dream of curing cancer just because you’re now working a full-time retail job to pay your bills and losing all access to your lab, samples, and funding!”
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But if you’re trying to say that scientists “had it coming” because they’ve gotten more past societal support than the arts, I’d argue I don’t think adding to the number of important things society is underfunding is ever an improvement.