Bingbong
3hr ago
Never actually tried myself but I've got a few white male friends with Maths PHDs who've said vast majority of job openings are looking for people with more diversity points (and foreign born counts towards that) and the compensation is low enough it only really suits visa-desperates or ultra autists.
Also in my experience with Math PHDs a lot of them aren't really wired for the general workforce even if they've got unbelievable processing power. My high school ex's dad is a top tier Astrophysicist and has won a major prize for Astronomy but I wouldn't really trust him to do any job that requires particular lateral thinking and he's relatively sociable and flexible by the standards of his field. There is a certain filtering, especially these days, where only the most stubborn and pure-mathy are the ones who decide to pursue Academia (especially if they don't have good diversity points) in the first place and the ones with more lateral abilities drop off the curve when they realize how insanely difficult a slog it is to get consistent paychecks in Pure Math.
A lot of the big successful revolutions were started off by the downwardly mobile and/or somewhat relatively-unsuccessful children of nobles, merchants and landlords. They had the education and the resources to dedicate themselves beyond subsistence, but also the motivation to take shots at the established order.
Suddenly the world has a lot of those.
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