Agreed, but it wasn't always that way, hence the reason why those who prioritized earning potential in the past tended to avoid academia and go into the private sector. Now there is an enormous financial incentive to get into administrative positions in universities, but now that the left has captured those institutions, anyone on the right who wants to maximize their earning potential almost has no choice but the private sector, since they would be filtered out from those lucrative positions that are now available.

If enough people on the right hadn't surrendered academia to the left back in the '60s and '70s, opting to forgo private sector jobs, the long march through the institutions would have faced a much more uphill battle. The left was smart enough to realize that capturing the youth was the key to capturing all the other institutions, and they were dedicated to the idea enough to follow through on it. Unfortunately, those of us on the right always assumed that " it doesn't matter, because they'll straighten out once they hit the real world."

But, while it's important to understand how we got here, we need to start focusing on solutions. It is one hell of a hole we have to dig ourselves out after several decades of sticking out heads in the sand and assuming it would all work itself out.