Goodbye academia, I get a life
Massimo Sandal,
blog.devicerandom,
Feb 22, 2011
I can't say the description of academia is inaccurate. It has indeed been set up as a type of pyramid (or 'ponzi') scheme, based mostly on selling your theory and earning acolytes. " In general, science career is a race, where three people go to the podium and all the others sooner or later will go back home (See also this article from the Economist on the problem). The competition for funding and positions means that not only the hopes of getting a job are really lousy, but that people become nasty. Like, really nasty.
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