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Haha, I am quite a bit more jaded than you and I think the current academic system is impossible to improve. I say this after having spent over a decade within

Haha, I am quite a bit more jaded than you and I think the current academic system is impossible to improve. I say this after having spent over a decade within it. I have also spent almost a decade in and around the US healthcare system and similarly think that it is impossible to improve. The thing is, there are enough people at the fringes of both those systems who genuinely believe in the ideals of those systems. I think those people, working together, can build better institutions that exist in parallel to the corrupt, diseased, broken systems that are a burden on our society today. For example, the T-shaped people who are undervalued by academia but still choose to focus their efforts there rather than in industry.

Topolomancer 5y ago
> The thing is, there are enough people at the fringes of both those systems who genuinely believe in the ideals of those systems. I think those people, working together, can build better institutions that exist in parallel to the corrupt, diseased, broken systems that are a burden on our society today. I am seeing flickers of this at least in some parts of academia, for instance the move towards open-access publishing and improved reviewing...but in the end, I have to admit that there might be a 'brain drain' coming (or people might, over time, just be corrupted and play along with the status quo)