#being smart doesn't preclude you from NEEDING TO BUY FOOD

[deathspeaker]

I would like to point out that professors make garbage pay these days 75+% of professors are 'adjunct' professors. And most adjuncts get paid MINIMUM WAGE. And in some states that's the federal minimum wage. Which is 7.25$ an hour.

So there are 100% absolutely brilliant Ph.D.-holding people who 100% have to work a second job to be able to teach. So right now I have 0 doubt there are at least a good number of janitors out there who are actually professors.

They also don't get healthcare. I know, I dated an adjunct for a while. And due to how their work is he absolutely had to do work off the clock for his classes.

I had a friend who wanted to be a professor, she was on the right track, but then she realized she'd be making more money, and keeping her benefits, by giving up on her dream and just staying in the admin office. This was at the top school in Arizona BTW. Of which, has 3 fantastic universities, tuition and fees can range from 12k a year to 35k a year btw (spring and fall). That's per student (in-state vs. out-of-state).

So again, there are actual brilliant people who are currently working jobs that some (assholes) view as lesser or degrading.

America does NOT value its education system, from pre-k to post-grad.

I was debating pre- and post- smartphone existentialism with an older gentleman today and he stopped part way through and said “Why are you a security guard? Why aren’t you teaching this at some college somewhere?��� And I didn’t know what to say so I went with “Well I used to make art but nobody pays an artist”