Petrolheadia wrote:United Muscovite Nations wrote:Not really. It's not a profit-driven field. Historical and archaeological research is almost entirely government funded. It's not like historical research sells big outside of academia.
Once again, supply and demand. A job is worth as much as the deficit between its supply and demand for it.
If we were about to "run out" of historians, they'd be paid a lot.
That only works for profit-driven fields. Historians don't produce for the mass market, and don't run a profit. Where would historians make a profit, where would demand come from?