Comment by GPerson

My motivation to do mathematics is some combination of wanting to understand the system of mathematics deeply and enjoying the craft and puzzle of working on research problems. If I never had to publish again and the computer was 1000x better than me, so that I can live on my 20k a year UBI, then I’m fine with that. The anxiety is that this isn’t realistic at all so I’ll likely have to spend my life doing something different than pondering math now.