Professors as a class are surprisingly often people that were promoted to a position of incompetence.
And when that incompetence leads to asking your workers to try to work with a codebase that's thousands of lines of uncommented code to run a custom chip, well, that's just extra fun.
Professors are part of the same general petty bourgeois class as middle management. This is why professors rarely respect the picket line when their TAs and research aides go on strike.
Yup. They are such weird little capitalists too. In some sense, via normal institutional mandates like tenure, they get quasi unfettered access to a labor pool that is all at the same cost to them. It's against their collectivized interests to join students in demanding raises because their own grants and bottom lines benefit from lower grad student wages.
Professors as a class are surprisingly often people that were promoted to a position of incompetence.
And when that incompetence leads to asking your workers to try to work with a codebase that's thousands of lines of uncommented code to run a custom chip, well, that's just extra fun.
Professors are part of the same general petty bourgeois class as middle management. This is why professors rarely respect the picket line when their TAs and research aides go on strike.
Yup. They are such weird little capitalists too. In some sense, via normal institutional mandates like tenure, they get quasi unfettered access to a labor pool that is all at the same cost to them. It's against their collectivized interests to join students in demanding raises because their own grants and bottom lines benefit from lower grad student wages.