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“I want to make the world a better place at no real benefit to myself”
“Ok, but only if you beg us for the money”
Modern academia in a nutshell
Honestly, to this guy, why bother staying in the States?
As much as I absolutely hate China, at least there they respect science and research and are actually and actively recruiting foreigners and poaching immigrant Americans. Also European countries are recruiting too.
As an American, escape while you can.
As someone not from the US, it’s mostly the same thing minus deportations. Dk how ubiquitous it is in particular, but grants seem to be the primary source of funding in many places, and the publish or perish culture is pretty much everywhere.
“Capitalism breeds innovation”
Sir, this is fascism
Fascism is capitalist
So EU is fascist?
No, I didn’t say capitalism is necessarily fascist.
But fascism is inherently capitalist and reactionary.
Fascism is one of the directions for the development of capitalist society.
I don’t get it…
Imagine socialised science or well funded theoretical physics. Why can’t other science be like that, where one can dedicate themselves to doing science, instead of seeking money with which to do the science
This comes to me as one more reason that people from academia are more commonly socialist.
Many know that what they experience permeates all places, and at the same time, it’s the academia where it hurts the most.
There has to be a better way.
UBI is the least we can do, but more is necessary. It makes job searching way less painful
Medicine is already this better way (in countries with social healthcare systems). A body of highly trained specialists who constantly update their knowledge through research, conferences and reading the last scientific advancements, and don’t necessarily earn extremely high salaries but have a comfortable life and a stable employment. We could expand this model to all sciences.
What country would that be in? Because where I live (Germany), medical researchers face pretty much the same challenges as researchers in other fields.
I meant medical physicians, not particularly researchers. My point is we could apply the healthcare model, i.e. a body of highly trained professionals working on exchange for a wage without the need for constant evaluation of metrics, relying on social value of medicine instead of grants as motivation.
They’re not making anything better for the world, just for some individuals
Huh?
