Ha, the top comment was basically &quot;not every industry is like Silicon Valley,&quot; and your response (among many others) is basically &quot;life would be better if more industries were like Silicon Valley.&quot; Ok, that might be true, but it doesn&#x27;t actually change the game on the ground today.<p>It&#x27;s easy to say that &quot;more people&quot; should take career risks. It&#x27;s harder to be the person who&#x27;s spent their entire life striving toward a Ph.D. in the field of study they love, and face the (very real) possibility that they&#x27;ll get one shot and that&#x27;s it.<p>Even if they can land at a Silicon Valley company (not as likely for biomedical researchers, BTW), that&#x27;s not their dream. Their dream was to do groundbreaking scientific research. That&#x27;s why they got their Ph.D. instead of a job in Silicon Valley.<p>I don&#x27;t think Sam addressed the commenter&#x27;s concerns at all.