# I Feel Sorry for People Who Work in Capital-Intensive Fields

Originally published: 2012-11-24
Canonical URL: /2012/Nov/i-feel-sorry-for-people-who-work-in-capital-intensive-fields/

Writers and mathematicians and programmers (_&c._) can work on whatever they want with equipment that's easy for individuals to purchase. Architects and particle physicists and psychologists (_&c._) need to hustle for clients or fill out a dozen grant applications just to be allowed to breathe—how do they bear it?