I'm a materials scientist and mechanical/aerospace engineer, and I've worked on projects and have colleagues still working on things like developing better sustainable urban transport systems, new recycling plant technologies, EV battery and powertrain research involving lower cost composite materials that use less energy to have less cradle-to-grave environmental impacts for various industries. Projects where people really want to build things to change things for the better, real physical things. And they struggle like hell to even get funding for the engineers/scientist salaries let alone money to keep the lights on in the labs or shops....

And I see this story, and these guys get 10 million dollars to make... some pixel art things that run in a browser and do... something, whatever...

$10M.

I think I might go jump off a bridge.