My wife got her PhD and some of the things she would talk about that her advisors told her just struck me as nuts. They would lament that it was “sad” people w

My wife got her PhD and some of the things she would talk about that her advisors told her just struck me as nuts. They would lament that it was “sad” people would leave academia to have families ignoring the fact that the jobs paid like crap and there was massive competition for any position. They acted like it was some conspiracy to keep people out of the field when it seemed to me to be mostly explained by people making straightforward economic decisions for themselves.