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Re:I Didn’t Want To Lean Out by eli_gottlieb on Friday March 28, 2014 @09:59AM (#7487247)
>And if society needs 5 new highly knowledgeable scientists a year, then producing 100 new PhD holders a year is over-producing them.

The other way to look at it is that failing to employ 95 qualified scientists means society's leaving a free lunch on the table.

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Re:I Didn’t Want To Lean Out by humanrebar on Friday March 28, 2014 @11:26AM (#7487810)
Or it's paying 95 people for years of free lunches without getting any return on that investment.
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