Mathematics is social
The extent to which that people can ‘get through life’ without mathematics is an indication of its artificiality. Granted, most of those people rely on technology invented or built by others who may ‘get through life’ using more (or less) mathematics.
Still, it is clear that “meaning is use” in anything involving language, and mathematics is first and foremost language.
We all ‘listen’ not to what they say, but to what they do…it’s all in the interpretation. Mathematics has lots of uses. Which is to say, there’s lots of ‘posturing’ in what ‘mathematicians’ do.
21st Century Paradox 