No, I'm thinking more in the context that research professorships are not what they once were. They have effectively become a kind of sweatshop labor to the aca

No, I'm thinking more in the context that research professorships are not what they once were. They have effectively become a kind of sweatshop labor to the academic research institutions for which the reward is a PhD and then the delightful prospect of becoming an adjunct professor. Such tremendous effort for little reward tends to dissuade many of the brightest minds from research careers and towards other careers like finance or consulting.