The stakes are already as low as they can get. There is no shortage of postdocs who will work for peanuts. In relation to tenure, what you are proposing is alr

The stakes are already as low as they can get. There is no shortage of postdocs who will work for peanuts. In relation to tenure, what you are proposing is already in place. When a tenured prof dies, they don't replace him, they just hire 2-3 adjunct faculty. With this in mind, the article is somewhat pointless; most universities have been in the process of effectively eliminating tenure for at least a decade. The ones that don't have billions of dollars worth of endowment money, so who really cares what they do?