The academic tracks are like a pyramid scheme: professors need graduate students, who then become professors who need graduate students, who become professors w

The academic tracks are like a pyramid scheme: professors need graduate students, who then become professors who need graduate students, who become professors who need even more graduate students. This was successful as we forced more and more young adults to go to colleges, but that growth is slowing while the academic tracks are still multiplying, which means there are PhDs and grad students who are very upset that their expensive pieces of papers will never get them the tenure job they thought was guaranteed. So we have very angry academics teaching our young adults -- and that's NEVER gone badly.