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Thanks for saying this. This is the absolute main problem of academia. It select people who don’t want to change a failing system because they are great at gaming that system. This is also the reason average quality academic researchers has dropped so much, while the best minds moved to industry, doing incredibly well very mundane tasks.

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magnor@lemmy.magnor.ovh ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
They are great at gaming that system and that system gives them the impression they are the most brilliant people to ever grace the earth. Don’t get me wrong, many are indeed brilliant, but the degree of self proving masochism that is academia would turn anyone into a raging narcissist.

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- Zeth0s@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I used to work in academia in a field where salaries in financial and tech industries are pretty good. The best people left. Most who stayed were average at best with great egos. Only 1 person deserved to stay and he is now living in a shithole city, with a salary that is 1/3rd of mine as lecturer.
  
  It is a broken system
  
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  - magnor@lemmy.magnor.ovh ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Same story here. This is sad as all hell.
    
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  - eran_morad@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    A common tale since the advent of biotech and quant finance. This is more or less my story, as well.
    
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- eran_morad@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Eh. I’ve rubbed elbows with maybe 20 Nobel laureates. Meaning, I’ve spent a good amount of time in the system, at the elite end. Being a prof at Very Prestigious University is not in any way a guarantee of raw intelligence.
  
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  - magnor@lemmy.magnor.ovh ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    I’ve known tenured researchers that believed HIV did not exist so yeah, agreed.
    
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nulluser@programming.dev ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

It selects people who don’t want to change a failing system because they are great at gaming that system.

Reminds me of the current American political system and the politicians it selects for us.

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eran_morad@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I mean, it’s also a question of poor mentorship, money, and work-life balance. I make a lot more money than I would in academia, working fewer hours, less frequently having to bend to some egomaniacal tyrant’s will. Sure as hell beats the tenure track.

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