The past is in an inspiring future.
Do not forget that there was a time and place where scholars and translators were paid as much for their contributions as professional athletes are paid today.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_G…
Just to be clear - future I’m picturing is @balajis’s cloud state taking this on. Not the institutions we have for funding research today
Related -seems we have to file 1099s for every #RoamGames winner we award over $600, so we’ve had to slow down until we figure out how to handle payouts
Surprising how many bureaucratic barriers there are to funding a flourishing intellectual commons.
They may turn the books into Sandals, but they can't stop scholars from converting the trauma into theory.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibn_Khald…
Ibn Khaldun cited in the wild!
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