#I miss you punk rebels lost artists figuring yourselves out

[thatmahblog]

Most academics are a bit mad when they see the 1%, the minority, who has it easy, who doesn't have to work so bad to afford it, and those who already know they're going to work at daddy's company. It's a whole world that is not properly shown in media. Because media cares more about that 1% than the real population.

i'm always a bit unsettled by disdain for intellectual or creative labor in leftist spaces. there's this commonly held belief that academics are a bunch of rich old white men, rather than a wide variety of people who are barely getting by. most lecturers in universities are adjuncts living paycheck to paycheck. authors make very little money as a general rule. most researchers are overworked and underpaid. and yet there's still this idea that academics are overcompensated to sit around and smoke cigars together while making shit up