Academics don't think Internet will ruin everything. That usually comes from people making the viral thing du jour. Academics tend to know actual history. As for the first versus popularizer—you're judging different games by the same standard. Different incentives.
But the point is: people who choose academia are often looking for something really different, and operate within a very different incentive structure. It has its own dysfunctions for sure and a terrible job market. But it's not some last choice of the desperate.
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If anything, if the job market wasn't this terrible, you'd see so many more people flock to it. It's very competitive in its own way exactly because that. Not too many is really "stuck" there; people with good jobs fought tooth-and-nail to get them exactly because it's different.
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