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It is not taken away from them and cannot be taken away from them. Just like you can solve any puzzle you like even if there is already a solution.

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That’s not entirely true. There is joy in being someone who pushed the frontier of knowledge forward, even if only by a hair.

This is evidenced by the scant few people who get into math just so they can rediscover group theory or differential calculus on their own with no spoilers.

But how many people get to do that? For most people, math consists of solving problems to which a solution already exists.

Those people can use whatever.

The argument was about mathematicians, and "anyone who got into mathematics for love of solving problems".

Difficult to do that when you're unemployed, because machines took over your field.

We're not talking about doing it as a hobby.

You'll have to do something else for your income. That's how it is for most people who can't make an income from their hobby.

OK, so it IS "taken away from them" as their job, which was the point.

Or did you think the argment was that they'll be forbidden by force to do math, and come to refute that?

Did you at all read the comment I was replying to?

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