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>It's not malicious, it's just a fact of how these things work While I agree it's not malicious, I'd say the reason it works this way is that there is a financ
by soperj 6y ago
>It's not malicious, it's just a fact of how these things work
While I agree it's not malicious, I'd say the reason it works this way is that there is a financial incentive to have it work this way.
- sn41 6y agoIt is not finance. There are a lot of motivations which are based on ego or prestige. Scholarship is unfortunately often based on competition - but the standards of winning are different from that of oil tycoons. Boiling everything down to finance will not lead to accurate understanding of how academia works.
- alexashka 6y ago> Boiling everything down to finance will not lead to accurate understanding of how academia works Why not? Given that only people with the 'correct' views get tenure to begin with, it doesn't surprise me at all that while there is plenty of ego and prestige, I'd classify it as bickering among priests. Point remains, only people who are indoctrinated and interested in advancing the interests of the church get to be priests to begin with.