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All human activity is full of scams if you cast your net wide enough. Insofar as academia contains scams, the distinction is that they have a much lower profit
by matthewdgreen 2y ago
All human activity is full of scams if you cast your net wide enough. Insofar as academia contains scams, the distinction is that they have a much lower profit margin.
- cwmoore 2y agoHow does one compute the profit margin of academia?
- matthewdgreen 2y agoYou look at the bad actors (in this case and others) and see how much money or equivalent they're getting out of their work. My general view is that it's much less than you could obtain with a PhD and similar effort applied to other fields.
- cherryteastain 2y ago> Sayre's law states, in a formulation quoted by Charles Philip Issawi: "In any dispute the intensity of feeling is inversely proportional to the value of the issues at stake." By way of corollary, it adds: "That is why academic politics are so bitter." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sayre%27s_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sayre%27s_law