I would really love to know some of the salaries of the retiring generation of tenured profs at prestige universities, who research and teach the one ancient language that I've been studying intensively for a number of years and have made myself into an expert in.
Though they drown it in words and it can be hard to tease out, there are very, very basic intellectual mistakes in a lot of their scholarship, where if you fairly and pithily summarize what they're doing to outsiders, it just makes them look like idiots.
And, I mean, if they're at 6 figures, you're giving them a million dollars each over the course of a decade, for that shit.
"Hashtag cartel."
Just a tremendous waste of resources... They didn't know how to learn what they needed to learn, at that level, and over the years any nudges in that direction got deflected or dampened and they just stagnated there, in their idiocy.
. . .
(I usually don't talk like that -- "idiots," "idiocy" -- but the situation in the field that I'm in is really just tremendously egregious... A colleague who recently gave me some advice on research project design made a side comment that it seems to him like a "backwater," which is a generous way of putting it.)
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