> Is this everyone else's experience? Yeah, and not only in the academic environment. Corporate environments have their flavour of this bs as well: people that

> Is this everyone else's experience? Yeah, and not only in the academic environment. Corporate environments have their flavour of this bs as well: people that get an ounce of career development and now all of a sudden their opinion casually always align with the upper management's directives. I don't think it's academic-specific, even though the academic environment is particularly bad as people get tenure in there and are basically impossible to remove, and a lot of people have to go through them during their university years. Maybe we as a society can work on re-aligning the incentives? Like celebrating people who collaborate more than we celebrate assholish people? Doesn't seem like it's working, though (just look at the whole social media scene, twitter/x in particular). I don't have a solution, just wanted to acknowledge the problem.