alt Hacker NewsExactly! I have some many colleagues who typically say that they do "math for the beauty" while holding permanent research positions funded by the state.
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fraboniface • today at 7:52 PM
One could also see it this way: shouldn't the goal of society be to allow more and more people to do things for the beauty of it rather that producing ever more useless stuffs and destroy the planet on the way?
Arodex • today at 5:47 PM
Progress is made by these people - including progress you rely on heavily as a programmer, such as cryptography. Not by the industry.
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That seems OK to me. I'd rather live in a state that funds beauty than one that doesn't. Think grants for artists, etc. A strictly practical world is not a good world to live in.