From Geektimes.
Klwert: And even the point is not that they are good. The visitor has nothing to do: he came home after eight hours of sitting in the office and can paste wallpapers or change the hose in the car. It is neither cold nor hot for anyone. But a specialist mathematician (physicist, biologist, signal processing specialist) spending his precious time striking nails in an apartment for a normal state is an unacceptable luxury! Therefore, he is paid so much that he could hire people and think only of his integral equations. And the state believes that a mathematician, a doctor of sciences, doing repairs in an apartment because of a lack of money, is not a problem. From here comes the conclusion of the need for science and generally just qualified people in this country!