It's worth noting that the poster you responded to said "from the faculty's perspective", not "from their adviser's perspective". Individual faculty members ca

It's worth noting that the poster you responded to said "from the faculty's perspective", not "from their adviser's perspective". Individual faculty members care a lot for their individual grad students, and generally go out of their way to help them. They academic system as a whole (which is partially run by the faculty) treats them pretty poorly (long hours, way below market pay--often near the poverty line and largely without benefits that well educated professionals [which is what grad students are] would expect in any other job). No one is saying that your partner is a bad person. They're saying that the system is a bad system.