There's a description for spending years in a tertiary degree: not needing a full time income, or having it come from somewhere else While I completely underst

There's a description for spending years in a tertiary degree: not needing a full time income, or having it come from somewhere else While I completely understand the sentiment and would also personally like that, the fact remains that to live for years untrammeled by the need for an economic relationship is something that is paid for by somebody. Should society be saddled with excessive taxes for academic welfare? Society pays for a lot of waste, so maybe it's unfair to single out academia. But it's a symptom of some kind of imbalance.