This is a very long winded article that takes pages to get to the point (the part you quoted). The next sentences ought also to be quoted: > Instead, we’ve ren

This is a very long winded article that takes pages to get to the point (the part you quoted). The next sentences ought also to be quoted: > Instead, we’ve rendered the majority of faculty contingent, increased administrators and administrative staff by 85 and 240 percent, respectively, over the past 40 years, and created a massive holding pen of temporary postdoctoral positions in STEM. If we look outside of academia for good measure, we see similar evidence of increased dependency on contingent labor, decades of stagnant wages, and no increase in leisure time to accompany increases in economic productivity. In this light it becomes harder to claim that PhD students are especially irrational or shortsighted, since so much of the broader US workforce is facing similar problems.