Academic exploitation (comment)

"Academia is built on exploitation. We must break this vicious circle: What did I find when I joined a university? Poor mental health, huge workloads, ego-driven professors and rampant plagiarism"

...."Even a well-meaning academic has to juggle many responsibilities. For example, a research professor must teach hundreds of undergraduates, supervise a team of PhD researchers, manage research grants and collaborations and edit publications and dissertations. Very few professors are able to accomplish all this without the overwhelming burden affecting their character and judgement. The resulting stress often manifests as poor judgement and negative behaviour. Unfortunately, the ones most likely to be on the receiving end of this are the PhD students, postdoctoral researchers and non-academic staff, who are often on short employment contracts..."

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