[FRIAM] Fwd: Grad Students Would Be Hit By Massive Tax Hike Under House GOP Plan : NPR

[Marcus Daniels]

Oh boy, careful what you wish for:  Indentured Servitude.    The legislative things to do are to prevent just that.
Bring back pensions and give an incentive to stay for five years.

https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2017/11/the-push-for-education-programs-that-pay-people-as-they-learn/546329/

Fadulu: Even though a company has invested in an apprentice, couldn't the apprentice leave and go elsewhere for a job that pays better? It sounds risky from a business perspective.

Campa-Najjar: There are certain agreements that could prevent that. Unions, when they do apprenticeships, they just say, "If we train you, you have committed to staying for five years."  It's almost like the military. ... Maybe there's just [a need for] accountability on both sides [when it comes to companies and their employees]. The employer and employee come into this relationship where we're going to train you and you will work for us for the next five years. We'll put you on this curriculum where every couple months you get a promotion. ... So I think there are some things legislatively we could do to make that happen.

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On the other hand, many professors want a cheap, dedicated labor force, and benefit from having a labor pool that believes they have poor employment options until they say otherwise.  Why should being a grad student an exercise in suffering?  Meanwhile, research is done by many kind of organizations outside of universities.      
Academia often does not play nice with industry, and often goes to great lengths to shield itself from outsiders.
At least half the talks I go to introduce the speaker based on their distinguished academic genealogy, and not based on any of their accomplishments.
Even the forms I have to fill out to invite speakers assume a certain kind of background, and the expectations are set up (at many levels of the organization) to judge harshly anyone that does not conform to that.

In a way, I see all this, and think Burn Baby Burn.

Marcus


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