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Academia is tough, and things are bad enough to complain about it.

However, you have (understandably) fallen in a trap of rationalization. This is not an earnest effort to improve. As it stands now, the damage of the conservative rage is measured in decades needed for repair. As in: the intended effect.

I have linked it a few times, but I am happy to do it once more, because I can surely understand the genuine confusion people have about these things:

https://www.arte.tv/en/videos/103517-001-A/capitalism-in-ame...

>>except+(OP)
"This programme is not available in your country." (i.e. USA) Oh the irony. You'll have to make the argument yourself, I guess.

>>jp57+b2
I think the broadcast license is restricted to EUR area. Proton vpn is free though. I recommend to take the hassle, it is a great historical documentary in three parts.

>>except+(OP)
If the problem is, as I posit that it is, that universities cynically exploit cheap labor in the form of grad students and postdocs in order to keep indirect funds flowing into the universities' accounts', then many earnest efforts to improve would necessarily involve putting a lot of researchers out of work, and that improvement would be a good thing.

My issue is with the uncritical defense of the status quo in both the article and most of the comments. Though I suppose I can understand the impulse for scientists to say that the field's problems are internal, to be dealt with internally, and that the government needs to just give the money they ask for and not make any effort to see or change how the sausage is made.

>>jp57+Y4
The status quo is not in focus, let alone I would defend it. Your concerns about the status quo are really valid imho, how they should be dealt with would be an interesting other subject, but they are not a concern for the conservative movement, nor are there any signs one could expect even unintended good consequences. As such, as well-intending you might be, it only adds to confusion.

The bad consequences are, from a historical perspective, the least of a surprise.