I didn't find much of this article very stimulating but the last comment made a very good point about fields in general: "So why aren’t there more people drawn

I didn't find much of this article very stimulating but the last comment made a very good point about fields in general: "So why aren’t there more people drawn into the[any] field out of sheer interest? Because when you’re poor, which most of the world is, money is more important than passion. It’s not until you reach a near First-World level of development that pursuing your passions rather than escaping poverty seems like a reasonable and/or admirable thing to do."