• ClimateChangeAnxiety [he/him, they/them]
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    20 hours ago

    Which, by the way, outside of “the cruelty is the point” which is obviously the real reason I’ve never been able to get the logic of this

    Surely part time, seasonal, temporary, or otherwise insecure jobs should pay more and have better benefits, no? As that’s the balancing factor for the insecurity?

    Like, I’m in academia so talking about what I know, I feel like it’s incredibly obvious that a tenured professor should make less money than an assistant professor who should make less money than an adjunct. And yet it’s the opposite. Adjunct professors get paid a few thousand dollars a semester, when it should honestly be like a thousand dollars an hour to encourage the school to hire actual full time staff. Tenured professors basically can’t lose their jobs unless they really fuck up but they get paid the most and also get extra benefits like closer parking and shit like that.

    Travel nurses are basically the only people that actually get higher pay to compensate for the precarity.