Academia hands out PhDs like candy, but not jobs
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It's a pyramid scam, especially if you get a PhD in Egyptology.
It's all Ra Ra Ra your not getting a job.
Hey, watch it, some of my best friends are Egyptologists!
(Seriously, actually!)
dissident, or...
I'm more of an old English guy.
Name checks out :-)
I like my archaeologist friends. Even the lefties are pretty normal. Archaeologists tend to be nerdy dorks who like digging shit up. Most people who want to spend all day deciphering 3000 year old writing and painstakingly figuring out the biographies of a kings and queens who have been dead for centuries don't tend to get swept away in the fads of currentyear.
They can, but it takes years of momentum. It also helps that most modern stuff has been tried multiple times, so we end up recognizing it.
It’s not academic arrogance, it’s nepotism and gatekeeping. PHDs mean next to nothing ever since social sciences reduced the criteria for their printing press of degrees. Colleges saw this as a great way to print money and duped students into believing their achievements were all equal. The variability in capacity/ achievement per degree is greater than the average anymore.
There is little surprise that there are far more people pursuing academic careers than there are openings. I imagine there is a sort of similar problems in law schools. They're likely pumping out increasing numbers of graduates, but the respective industries may not be growing at a rate to hire them all, or there isn't a demand for their services (such as the egyptologists mentioned in the comments here).
I should think this isn't a new issue, except that we're dealing with more entitlement in people, and perhaps more obscure or absurd academic pursuits.
In time, we might see "the starving doctor" become as cliche as the "starving artist."