If tenure is going to be rendered meaningless by boards of Governors and craven administrators, then what's the incentive for faculty to stay in academia? It certainly can't be the pay or the work-life balance
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That's the social contract. I bust my ass round the clock for 9 months of the year in an unaffordable city so I can work on my own research undisturbed for the other 3 with some measure of long-term job security. If that goes away, what reason do I have to give up so much labor?
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And the grim answer is that we'll keep doing it for the same reason we do so much other unpaid labor: we're competing for the scarce respect of other colleagues in the field. We could all negotiate a much better deal if we toned down our own dog-eat-dog status competition.
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But in the meantime, people don't want to go independent scholar because they know that others in the field won't take them seriously, won't read their work, won't publish it, etc. We're all recognition hoarders and its killing us.
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I do think this is changing, though. You see it at conferences. Younger scholars in the academy all know many more brilliant folks who have been pushed out of the academy or into alt-ac pathways. Not every subfield is this way but I think market collapse is shifting the culture
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The workaholics can have their prestige. I'd rather have solidarity, fair pay, abd a workplace that doesn't rely on stratified castes of contingent labor
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I bailed out back to tech, where I work 40 hours a week, fully remote, and have nearly doubled my academic pay 3 years after leaving. My pay in tech has made homeownership possible. if you decide you really need an exit, my DMs are open.
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