"but for a lot of departments professors have good business options that should give them similar leverage, and it doesn't seem to help them at all." LOL. Mayb

"but for a lot of departments professors have good business options that should give them similar leverage, and it doesn't seem to help them at all." LOL. Maybe I'm just a cynical old fart, but from my experience with most professors, they couldn't get let alone hold a job in industry if their lives depended on it, at least not the ones who have been in academia for 15+ years including their PhD's. Many (most?) of these people are spoiled beyond repair by the freedom offered by their positions, even if they invariably think they have it so bad.