M.J. Pearson wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > salaries that go with it. Large salaries are ALWAYS fashionable!
> >
> > There speaks one of Thatcher's children. Us sixties people grew up with a
> > different view. Big salaries were then deeply unfashionable.
> >
> No, Michael I am NOT one of Thatcher's children - I have never voted
> conservative in my life, was born in 1946 and was as much a 60s
> person as you!
>
> Big salaries certainly were unfashionable then and money never
> crossed my mind when I went into science in 1965. My
> decision, like others', was because of interest in the subject and
> idealism. However, talking now to non-scientific friends and my
> children's friends, as well as reading the press, suggest to me
> that people see it differently now. Perhaps people's perception of
> the down side of science is more influential now than idealism about
> its benefits.
either way, surely it's just not on that scientists should have to make the
decision to sacrafice a higher pay package. i admire people who do this, but
that's not to say it's something we should all be aspiring too, rather than
trying to make things a little more even?
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