5 ms·
"Earning" doesn't necessarily come with a truly elite status job, because you're not relying on a salary to live. Having to live off a salary is lower status.
by dukeyukey 2y ago
"Earning" doesn't necessarily come with a truly elite status job, because you're not relying on a salary to live. Having to live off a salary is lower status.
- Loughla 2y agoI don't understand what you're saying here.
- dukeyukey 2y agoThe comment above mine said "Academia pays absolutely terribly for an elite job". But earning doesn't really come into a truly elite (status-wise) job, because the person doing it doesn't need to earn to live.
- azernik 2y agoThe top comment claimed "academia today is essentially a machine for amassing status and money". Pointing out that it pays terribly is completely on point.
- wdh505 2y agoIf my daddy makes 7 digits per year and set me up in a trust then I don't have to work to live upper middle class. Therefore an "elite" aka prestige only position that pays pennies may be more elite because i don't depend on the pay like the plebians. A different way to become a low paying professor is to research and earn 7digits+ from patents
- npilk 2y agoI'm not disputing your point about prestige, and I'm sure that people whose 'daddies make 7 digits per year' would be interested in more prestigious roles and less interested in pay. But I really doubt that most professors are trust fund kids who don't have to work.