Political "science"

Well the title does say "1 in 12"

sad truth but I think people do it for the love

I bet if you told a lot of the younger PhDs working on Wall Street that they had an offer for an 80k/yr tenure track position at a decent university, they would quit their jobs on the spot.

don't know why it hasn't been said yet lol

liberals are smarter than conservatives

Yet we all know the cushy academic jobs are at an absolute premium and most profs are making a little more than minimum wage as adjuncts

It's not about maximizing pay per se but
>actually being able to do research
>having some semblance of job security
although adjunct pay is awful, no doubt

There aren't anywhere near as many of those positions as their are jobs on Wall Street trying to rub two dollars together to magic a third into existence. Our society values finance so much more than academia that we're willing to throw hundreds of billions of dollars at Wall Street but scoff at the idea of funding universities and see their budgets as nothing but a piggy bank to raid.

The whole idea behind conservatism is "people from the past knew better so we ought to keep their ways".

Which is really retarded when you think about it.

Honestly it's administrators and bloated bureaucracy that are currently the cancer in academia

they control the money, so naturally they create more of themselves like cancer

I don't completely disagree, but Universities waste a lot of money on administration that could be going to research. People just hire their friends to administrative jobs where they do nothing but make 500k/yr.