most teachers considered themselves white collar and not essential
Hahahah oh boy....yeah, I think that's part of the whole thing about cultural capital vs actual money paid kicking in, and boy do the universities take advantage of that. Did you read this article on burnout? https://www.edsurge.com/news/2020-08-14-burnout-is-coming-to-campus-are-college-leaders-ready It had some good points about how burnout is normalized in the academy -- and it's certainly normalized and glorified in what could be called the post-job capitalist economy, where people hold positions for one or two years at tech places where you're encouraged to work 10-12 hours at the office or even sleep there (Microsoft was infamous for this). Except the young people at the top of that pyramid get high compensation and perks, but that's probably even less than 1% of that working population in tech, let alone everyone working.
....and oh yeah, the google "perks" -- I read an article by a guy who was visiting a friend who worked at Google and was marvelling over the wonderful cafeteria, and then thought, oh right, the person making the sandwiches probably doesn't even work for Google and they certainly don't get any perks. And he asked his friend if that bothered him and the friend was like "Well uh yeah sure" but it was obvious he didn't really think about it. (Remember the Google drivers trying to unionize?)
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Hahahah oh boy....yeah, I think that's part of the whole thing about cultural capital vs actual money paid kicking in, and boy do the universities take advantage of that. Did you read this article on burnout? https://www.edsurge.com/news/2020-08-14-burnout-is-coming-to-campus-are-college-leaders-ready It had some good points about how burnout is normalized in the academy -- and it's certainly normalized and glorified in what could be called the post-job capitalist economy, where people hold positions for one or two years at tech places where you're encouraged to work 10-12 hours at the office or even sleep there (Microsoft was infamous for this). Except the young people at the top of that pyramid get high compensation and perks, but that's probably even less than 1% of that working population in tech, let alone everyone working.
....and oh yeah, the google "perks" -- I read an article by a guy who was visiting a friend who worked at Google and was marvelling over the wonderful cafeteria, and then thought, oh right, the person making the sandwiches probably doesn't even work for Google and they certainly don't get any perks. And he asked his friend if that bothered him and the friend was like "Well uh yeah sure" but it was obvious he didn't really think about it. (Remember the Google drivers trying to unionize?)