I doubt an undergrad chooses not to go into science today because they see it being too collaborative. They don’t because they realize they can become a finance bro and make a metric ton more.
A lot of science seems highly collaborative yes but that’s not because of a lack of choice. It’s honestly a cop out way of doing it. See the competition between the massive effort of the human genome project and Venter going rounds around them with a small team and in the end they announced together they sequenced the human genome to save face.
> I doubt an undergrad chooses not to go into science today because they see it being too collaborative. They don’t because they realize they can become a finance bro and make a metric ton more.
It is also years of PhD and postdocs where you work a lot for a little money while having super large chance to be forced out despite your efforts. And having to move every few years where you get the job, which makes families more complicated.
Plus, competition for those slots is still high. It is not like there would be unfilled PhD or postdocs positions. There is more interests then available slots, leading to all kind of abuse.
They go into finance because everyone since the Boomers has faced a nightmare of a job market in academia and science. Why spend 5+ years for a 15% chance at a middle class job when the alternative of doing anything else is so much easier?
Kids don’t come out of college wanting to be corporate or finance bros. That happens after the world grinds them down.
A lot of science seems highly collaborative yes but that’s not because of a lack of choice. It’s honestly a cop out way of doing it. See the competition between the massive effort of the human genome project and Venter going rounds around them with a small team and in the end they announced together they sequenced the human genome to save face.