I'd like to discuss the fundamental problem of money with you. As I usually do once a week or so, I'm scrolling through LinkedIn. Tonight I've had a couple of really interesting finds. I've found people who have amazing academic credentials. I'm talking Ivy Leagues and double/triple majoring in stuff like math, physics, computer science.

What do you think those people are doing now? A good guess would be that now they are at NASA working on space travel. Or perhaps they could be in a private company working in renewable energy research like improving nuclear energy, solar energy, etc.

Good guesses. Here is what they are doing:
Senior Data Scientist at PepsiCo. Currently working on a classification engine that looks at tweets and tells you which ones are about food/drinks and which aren't.

So some of the most educated people on this planet are working at fucking Pepsi building algorithms that can look at your tweet and tell them if your tweet was about drinks so that they can target ads at you. Or maybe they can mix that data with geolocation and they can now tell if suddenly in California there are a lot more people than usual tweeting about drinks so they can dispatch a team of researchers to figure out if there is some event in the area they can profit from.

Is this really what we built civilization for? We went from the stone ages to the digital age all so that we could raise humans educated enough that they can write algorithms that scan tweets to see if you'd want a Pepsi?