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Desire and Fate

Harsh truth of the day

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Apr 22, 2021
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From Richard Hanania’s Substack:

It is important to highlight just what an irrational decision going into academia is for a person who wants to maximize their lifetime earnings. Graduate school takes something like 6 years, during which you’re making something like a minimum wage salary as a college graduate. This is all in the hopes of getting a postdoc…

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