But that's not entirely tech giant's fault. Former AI professor "gorged" by the "evil tech giants". Salary is twice less than the first salary a uni dropout ge

But that's not entirely tech giant's fault. Former AI professor "gorged" by the "evil tech giants". Salary is twice less than the first salary a uni dropout gets in industry (mid-level assistant prof gets roughly 1k EUR/month after taxes). I live in a lovely post-communistic country in Europe. There are two choices: work for X% of your time in the private sector or fund a startup with grant money. I chose to leave academia. If academician's compensation went up to at least match a livable standard, people would stay.