>Why is doing science important?
>>9152936
If you like your name on your work or want any kind of name recognition to help you in the over-saturated job market or generally don't want your work to feel wasted as someone else discovers what you already found then yes, publishing your work is important.
>>9153094
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>>9152936
You want to get paid, don't you?
>>9152936
>assuming you are looking at it egoistically.
If by publishing you mean "put out there", then the only scientific egoistic reason would be "so other brains can work on it and you can use their results that they hopefully published".
Else it's for for the following and their consequences: prestige, money, "improving the world"
So I can call you a subhuman retard for not using [math]\rm\LaTeX[/math].