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The whole grad school equation is foobar. Universities import foreign labor and they under pay given their monopoly where paid positions exist. They also rely
by sjg007 7y ago
The whole grad school equation is foobar. Universities import foreign labor and they under pay given their monopoly where paid positions exist. They also rely on students obtaining external funding.
- asdff 7y agoThen they take half of said external grant funding as overhead.
- gammadens 7y agoIndirect funds on grants need to be eliminated in my opinion. The GOP is a disaster at the moment in my opinion but introducing bills to eliminate them is one of the things they've done right. Indirect funds distort the purpose of grants and give perverse incentives to university administration and other funding sources.
- ChrisLomont 7y ago>Universities import foreign labor and they under pay given their monopoly Given that there's hundreds of schools with thousands of grad programs to choose from, with none of them having more than a tiny percentage of the total market, this is not monopoly pricing. It's simply supply and demand. People are willing to show up and work for the vast majority of these programs.
- sjg007 7y agoAre you sure about that?
- ChrisLomont 7y agoYes. This isn’t a monopoly, so it’s not monopoly pricing. That leaves competitive pricing.
- sjg007 7y agoUnfortunately you have no idea what you are talking about.