Comment by classified
2 hours ago
> you need to justify your work to your patron.
Assuming this is true, how did they justify their work, which had, at the time, no practical application?
2 hours ago
> you need to justify your work to your patron.
Assuming this is true, how did they justify their work, which had, at the time, no practical application?
I'm pretty sure that it'd be easy for anyone of above-average intelligence to realize that Newton was on another level.
So... network effects... same way most people get jobs, these days.
Art got patrons, too - what practical use is it?