> You clearly live in a world you don't understand.

i have a phd in pure math. you sure i'm the one that doesn't understand this world?

Regardless of credentials you certainly appear to have entirely missed his point. Imagine if someone suggested that cars existed for the sake of competition. But they don't, right? They exist because in our society we've organized the bulk of transportation around them. The fact that formula 1 exists, or that delivery drivers can be rated on performance relative to one another, those are not (at least in and of themselves) arguments against this basic fact.

> Imagine if someone suggested that cars existed for the sake of competition

are the mathematicians the cars here? what are you even saying? the question is whether elite mathematicians do the work they do primarily for competition and compensation or for the love of the field. now ask yourself: do F1 drivers do it primarily for the love of the sport or for the money?

> delivery drivers

people getting scooped by OAI are not the "delivery drivers" of the math world.

Would any PhD guarantee your understanding? You appear to fall for an argument from authority there.

A PhD is merely intended to show your ability to do research-level science. It doesn't show you know independently what to research, let alone why.

You confuse your ability to solve riddles competition-style with the answer to why you should do that in the first place.