“Consenting to seven to ten years in wage slavery as the necessary precondition for liberation is no longer rational if this simply precedes a still lower salary as an adjunct faculty member. The only thing the PhD now reliably confers is the potential for lifetime poverty and underemployment.”
- Cary Nelson, “Don’t Mourn, Organize,” Academe, January-February, 2010.
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Let’s not forget those of us who had to drop out BEFORE getting the Ph.D. yet with just as much debt and “time wasted” in wage slavery.