And they wouldn't make that much if they didn't swab the asses of the "peers" who supply those crumbs....They'd have to leave the halls of academe and go make lattes at Starschmucks.
You're really so obtuse that you can't follow the bread trail, aren't you?
The funny thing is, back in the 1980s we all laughed at that as we all knew that was simply how it was.
In 1993 I tried to return to college as an adult, and there is a truth to the old axiom I learned is a fact.
He who can, does; he who cannot, teaches
In 1993 I decided to take a business class to advance my education. And my professor was a complete buffoon. He had worked for about 4 major corporations that were well known, and left each one. And in almost a month of lectures, he had not covered a single page in the $60 book I had to buy to take part in the course.
In fact, I learned far more from the textbook than anything he ever covered in a single lecture.
The final straw was when he did not show up for a class. Nothing from the administration saying he would not be there, and we were a week away from our first exam. And it was also the final "Drop Day". I left the class after 30 minutes of waiting, and went to the admin office to drop the class. Got a refund on the amount I spent to take the class, just shrugged off I paid for the textbook.
And that was back when Community College in 1993 was only $10 a unit. For a 3 unit course that was $30. I don't even think I bothered to get my $30 back.
Today, that same class would be $160. Now I have long laughed at people screaming at how expensive college is. It is only so damned expensive because the schools know they can get away with it. They are the worst sharks in the world. Even taking into account for inflation, that class should cost no more than $70. The very fact that it's $160 shows that the colleges are absolutely gouging students.
There actually is a reason why I take so few "researches" seriously anymore. It is from a long life of learning that a great many are motivated only by money. I am probably significantly older than most in here, and have seen this repeated ad nauseum. If somebody is willing to pay for research into why earthworms dig tunnels that are counter-clockwise, I'm sure a dozen institutions will suddenly spout research into why they do that.
Never mind that maybe in reality they might dig their tunnels clockwise. If there is money to be made in research, somebody is always more than willing to take that money to deliver the results they want to see.
And no, I am not some kind of "conspiracy theorist". I am simply a skeptic that understands that money will always attract snake oil salesmen. So long as the money pours in, there are some that will tell them anything they want to hear.
