Likewise to academia and professional science, by the way: 70% of all faculty are adjuncts, and most working scientists don't even become adjunct faculty. Thus

Likewise to academia and professional science, by the way: 70% of all faculty are adjuncts, and most working scientists don't even become adjunct faculty. Thus, almost everyone working in science on a daily basis is either a grad-student or post-doc (paid low wages because they're theoretically a trainee for a position they'll never really get) or an adjunct faculty member (used to do the teaching labor the administration wants done but which would distract real professors from frantically applying for grants). Oh, and advancement runs on a feudal hierarchy[1]. [1] http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/1/1/e1400005 http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/1/1/e1400005