>Actually, class mobility in the United States is terrible. Bullshit. By age 30 I was making more than both my parents combined.
Ah yes. And because YOU did it, obviously the ENTIRE population of the United States could do it if they really wanted and the whole class mobility premise is false. If you're going to call bullshit on someone's claim, try bringing more evidence to the party than one little piece of irrelevent anecdotal evidence about how you managed to do it.
There's no conceivable restructuring of society that allows us to use quantum field theory or string theory where we couldn't before.
Wait, your argument is "I can't think of a use for it, so there must not be one"? I bet that's never been said before.
The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts. -- Paul Erlich