And on the other hand you see things like https://cra.org/articles-addressing-shortage-of-cs-professors-across-many-institutions/ https://cra.org/articles-addre

And on the other hand you see things like https://cra.org/articles-addressing-shortage-of-cs-professors-across-many-institutions/ https://cra.org/articles-addressing-shortage-of-cs-professor... Just like there's a glut of wordpress plugin authors and a shortage of ML experts, different fields of academia have different levels of supply/demand. Also, USPS really is not a prototypical example of free labor market: those salaries/pensions/benefits will be a lot smaller if/when usps privatizes...