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Our reaction destroyed the workforce equilibrium. It's a subtle but important difference.

• DJBunnies 3y ago
  Do go on.
• HarryHirsch 3y ago
  You could say that - in my circles there's quite a few oldtimer lecturers and professors who decided to retire instead of exposing themselves to the pestilence and risk death, the older you are the more likely that you won't survive. If mitigation methods hadn't totally gone out of the window they'd have stayed on.
  • dmix 3y ago
    Not to be dismissive or mean but what percentage of the workforce are "old timer" professors and lecturers? If I've learned anything about academia is that the most common personality trait of this demographic is their own sense of self-importance. Often as a consequence of their own local job/life experience where young people look up to you before entering real life, combined with the typical boring institutional hierarchies. Making a big deal about their retirement/exit, or at least connecting it to something wider and currently culturally relevant, is on-character in that context. This was satirized very well in a film I just watched recently so maybe I'm biased https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5536736/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5536736/
    • the_only_law 3y ago
      > If I've learned anything about academia is that the most common personality trait of this demographic is their own sense of self-importance. Lmao if I’ve learned anything about software developers…
• darth_avocado 3y ago
  Exactly. The whole economy is paycheck to paycheck, from the government to multi billion dollar corporations to hourly gig employees. We need to build a more resilient economy than the one that maximizes profits for Wall Street.
• mensetmanusman 3y ago
  Our reaction was inevitable due to the flaws of human nature. It’s part of the pandemic. Kind of like how stampedes are inevitable after a certain human body density with the proper noise trigger.