I am a chemist and I undertake

Ah yes, financial independence; it's the current reality of the world, we all need it at some level and we can't achieve it by working for someone else. It is true that there are well-paying jobs that can even provide a certain standard of living. But the fact is that this is worth nothing compared to the wealth that a person could develop by being self-employed: hence the trend towards entrepreneurship. This trend has led everyone, including the chemist. How can we explain that the chemist finds himself in such a spiral knowing that he is a person who contributes greatly to the improvement of the quality of our lives, to the protection of the environment and to the creation of jobs and wealth? Since we know to a certain extent that it is thanks to chemists that cosmetics are making progress, that energy is taking shape through bioresources, that agriculture is improving... the most likely explanation remains the following, the bridge between the chemist's laboratory and society does not exist because, like Ernest Solvay, the chemist must undertake.