> every mathematician in the current day is funded,
This is tautological, “mathematician” being defined in the modern world as someone paid to do mathematics…
Notice that the modern world is able able to sustain significantly more mathematicians than when “mathematicians” used to mean “someone well-off enough to work on mathematics in their ample amount of free time without worrying about their subsistence”.
> every mathematician in the current day is funded,
This is tautological, “mathematician” being defined in the modern world as someone paid to do mathematics…
Notice that the modern world is able able to sustain significantly more mathematicians than when “mathematicians” used to mean “someone well-off enough to work on mathematics in their ample amount of free time without worrying about their subsistence”.