It’s time for me to go home and rethink my life.

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Probably higher birthrate than the Antarctic

Yep! Our family said this exact same words and translated our CV into Spanish and German. My wife was depressed at first that her fifteen years of working in academia and research all comes to this simple idea. There is clearly no future here.

The institute she is at did not take on a single PhD candidate this year (for the first time in its history)… Meaning some PhDs will graduate this year and next year etc - but in four or five (or seven, lol) years the real impact of that decision will hit.

I’d guess that the client was one of those people in the chain (probably the contractor) who “had a cool idea”

That works !

I appreciate that the author both adds texture/nuance AND firmly denounces him. I like the depth to that.