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[-] areyouevenreal@lemm.ee 1 points 15 hours ago

In what world or country are professors not making enough to afford somewhere to live? In my country professors make good money despite the fact that tenure doesn't really exist here. It's one of the highest ranks you can have in academia above lecturer, senior lecturer, and reader.

[-] TORFdot0@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

The professors in the US aren’t living in their cars because they pay isn’t adequate it’s because of the cost of the huge amount of student debt it takes to become a phd

[-] CondensedPossum@lemmy.world 7 points 14 hours ago

Sorry we've got a vocabulist here hold on let me talk him down

Nobody is talking about whatever ivory tower caste system you are talking about, to normals "professor" is common parlance for "college teacher" and many campuses around the country still call adjunct """"""""instructors""""""""" adjunct professors

i hope this fulfills the terms of your devil riddle

[-] areyouevenreal@lemm.ee 1 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

Yes except lecturers also make bank.

The only people not making good money are the PhD students who also teach. Even then most of us I think get more money than the undergraduates.

Even I as a student get something like £19,000 a year plus £40 per hour teaching rate for any classes I teach.

Either these people are manipulating you or there is something very wrong with academia in your country. Luckily moving countries is quite easy for academics as many Universities will hire foreign staff and there are often immigration laws in place for these kinds of people.

[-] SwingingTheLamp@midwest.social 1 points 4 hours ago

Yeah, I think, uhh, that something is very wrong with our whole country is actually the whole point of the meme?

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