I personally dislike comments like yours as well? Is this fun? Class politics is a very real thing, for better or worse. And smearing/confusing the parent with

I personally dislike comments like yours as well? Is this fun? Class politics is a very real thing, for better or worse. And smearing/confusing the parent with cutesy Capital Letter Disdain seems fairly hypocritical, given your protestation of "this adds nothing to the conversation". One can argue this or that about macro policy, and I for one am not in a rush to brand "academics" as a "class", but to rule out class as a dirty word seems a bit bizarre in a post-piketty world (choosing the least likely to offend theorist of generational wealth inequality).