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One of the best academic scams is all these "assistant director" and "editor" positions that pay jack squat -- less than many companies pay phone support temps -- but let the position holders continue to have the privilege of "feeling smart"
A lot of academia is just a big ruse, letting you think "ah I'm underemployed or actually paying money to be here, but it's okay, I'm smart! I'm not like those jocks!"
To the extent that revolutionary pedagogy is transmitted to the underrepresented via the formal academy, it is almost by accident and only through the capacity of the learner, which could also be learned for free in community centers run by radical outsiders (or on the net)
I entered academia, as classmates know, so I could have a five year paid vacation to use the "cadillac" health care to get lots of procedures done + ignore the assigned reading to read the hundreds of books I wanted to read, during the last period of true free time I'd have
I was never disillusioned, though editors may have made me say as much in various essays just to frame the piece, because I was never 'illusioned' in the first place. I've always worked 9 to 9 and I expect to work that way until I expire, even if others shouldn't have to
The whole thing just never made sense to me. A classroom of history students paying $100k a semester combined to earn those credit hours? Holy smokes. You could see a piece of trash like Game of Thrones or Endgame for less than that, and you'd enjoy it much more
Or you could plunk down 60 bucks on a Paradox historical simulation and learn a million times more about geography, culture, population, etc. Not that you couldn't from a class, but the learning is much more seamless with a game like that
The saving grace of my whole life, the thing that has preserved my mental health, is that I've always enjoyed doing stuff but never needed to be praised for doing it or considered "smart" or "special." I've dealt w/ financial insecurity and health insecurity, but not that stuff
it is amazing to me what people will put up with for less pay per hour than you'd get working a call center I know, the work is probably better than a lot of shitty jobs, but even so.......
A lot of it still amounts to tedious tasks for VIPs, like planning the college's fundraising dinner or some such
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