I bet #JeffSchmidt's book #DisciplinedMinds on graduate school and #professionals probably offers a lot that is useful for thinking about why there is so much bullshit and why people put up with it. It's probably a status thing, and a money thing. I'll have to find my copy soon.. In the meantime here's #BertrandRussel in 1931:
> The rich would think it beneath their dignity to have such #knowledge, and #ignorance has become the hallmark of social eminence.
https://russell-j.com/MEDITATE.HTM

#BarbaraEhrenreich on #Health, #Poverty, #WageSlavery... with an example of #professional #DisciplinedMinds.
http://www.healthpacbulletin.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/1988-Vol-18-4-Winter.pdf

> The #professors here symbolize the tragedy of all employed #professionals who started out as students loving their subjects. Such students submit themselves to the process of professional training in an effort to be free of the marketplace, but instead of being strengthened by the process they are crippled by it. Deprived of political control over their own work, the become alienated from their subjects and measure their lives in the #marketplace.
#JeffSchimdt's #DisciplinedMinds #FacDev

@acousticmirror @cwebber Look at Racket profs with Christine or Andy Wingo in mind: the profs are on a different ethical planet. But, in the context of #JeffSchmidt's #DisciplinedMinds, Racketeers are saints. 60 years ago Paul Goodman said our society's problem is the lack of options, people can't be decently poor, and Rat Race organization won't let people do things directly with grace. On YT is a Matt Flatt talk to devs about Academic jobs, maybe 30% is the committee work of #BullshitJobs?