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I think you can say it for any self-replicating profession.
by fallentimes 18y ago
I think you can say it for any self-replicating profession.
- ph0rque 18y agoAs long as there are people paying for the services a given profession provides, it will continue to exist. Now, it might be the case in e.g. academia that the profs will have to do the tedious work that grad students used to do, or come up with other ways of compensation, but the point still stands.
- fallentimes 18y agoIt gets murky when the positions are subsidized by the government or otherwise.
- jorgeortiz85 18y agoScientific knowledge is a public good. That's exactly the kind of thing government should be subsidizing.
- fallentimes 18y agoThat's a strawman argument. Not all the subsidized positions have to do with science anyways.
- netcan 18y agoNot sure it's a straw man argument, but your right. Many academic areas produce mostly papers & graduates. The Graduates pay to be produced.
- fallentimes 18y agoI think it is. No one said anything for or against scientific knowledge then all of a sudden WHOOSH.
- netcan 18y agoi don't think going WHOOSH as he hit send qualifies it argument as a straw man. Irrelevant at worst. Tangent at best. What if he had just decided to call you an old bag. Would that be a strawman? It's not implying that you presented not being a bag as an argument.
- fallentimes 18y agoHaha, that'd just be hilarious.