On: Will it be a golden age or a dark age for mathematics (and science)?

[golemotron]

I don't think you can lay naming at the feet of capital. Euclid, Ramanujan, Galois, Poncelet.. The list goes on. The Marxist lens is feeble.

[grandpajoey → golemotron]

If you’re not hunting to survive (and even then), you have access to capital. The time to study math is, and always has been, paid for by someone, some way.

[golemotron → grandpajoey]

We shouldn't forget the sun either. Without the sun none of us would be here.