Honestly? Sad turn of events in history. I'm not trying to "Great Man Theory" this, but Wittgenstein's enduring legacy in Philosophy and Linguistics is incredible. Someon like that "defecting" to the USSR might have attracted others due to his sheer brilliance if nothing else, and resulted in a remarkably different Soviet intellectual climate. I treasure the Soviet Unions achievements in science and political struggle, but you know, critical support and all. I wonder if a school of truly international socialist intellectuals would have influenced the shape of history in a positive way. Maybe it would be doomed to fail, but what might have been if they'd moved there and thrived? What would the West look like if it lost some of it's best the other direction? Would left-anti-communism have become such a force if the people propagating it had actually been there to see the reality, or help construct an alternative series of events? Just interesting to think about.

From each their ability, to each their needs

lmao it actually happened

Yep, I worked as a machinist and welder during undergrad to pay for University. I liked that job way better than being a professional scientist.

As someone who briefly did research, then a bs office job at an ngo with cool values, and then worked waiting tables, I jumped at the chance of getting into research again. Working tables again was literal hell for my autistic ass.

u are sentenced to teaching and researching

I basically do manual labor for a living and regularly think about how much more I'd hate my life if I had to sit in an office dealing with bullshit all day, idk how yall do it honestly

As someone in tech, I frequently dream of a fantasized life being a berry picker in a hunter-gatherer society.

As someone who does manual labor... I often dream of an office job.

Trust me it sucks.

wish i was smart enough to do research

Didn't c/UlyssesT actually do that or am I mixing my hexbear lore up.