Regardless of credentials you certainly appear to have entirely missed his point. Imagine if someone suggested that cars existed for the sake of competition. But they don't, right? They exist because in our society we've organized the bulk of transportation around them. The fact that formula 1 exists, or that delivery drivers can be rated on performance relative to one another, those are not (at least in and of themselves) arguments against this basic fact.
> Imagine if someone suggested that cars existed for the sake of competition
are the mathematicians the cars here? what are you even saying? the question is whether elite mathematicians do the work they do primarily for competition and compensation or for the love of the field. now ask yourself: do F1 drivers do it primarily for the love of the sport or for the money?
> delivery drivers
people getting scooped by OAI are not the "delivery drivers" of the math world.
