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Alrighty man, if your worldview is, "Everything within my knowledge is the objectively correct amount of knowledge to learn, and everything outside of my knowledge is useless abstract garbage", you can live like that.

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Live like that, I'm deeply concerned this man may get elected to one of the highest positions in the world!

Me: "Most research that gets funded in maths is useless" You: "We use maths everyday"

Do you see how our statements do not contradict each other?

I think you fundamentally misunderstand the purpose of research; Research is not always and is not commonly a problem in search of a solution it's the other way around, people find a topic of interest and race it out to conclusion and then share findings to allow other people to apply that knowledge.

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