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According to this data, at least in the US, wealthy people are already "gentlepersoning" us in many elite fields: https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2014/03/18/289013884/who-...

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It’s international. The global elite are not constrained by borders.

There aren't a lot of places where going into academia has significant opportunity cost (like for example, losing out on the prospect of a yacht paid for by reactjs work).

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