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  • It always has been, it always will be.

    I don't get why anyone is surprised by this sort of thing. Money is the supreme value above all others in USA culture.

    It comes before God, Country, Mission and personality morality, always.

  • I'm an IT professional but I find most IT communities to be full insufferable people and full of useless and irrelevant information on obscure systems and practices that don't apply to the average IT job which is sys admining windows/linux/mac.

    Would love a community that was chill and not full of people trying to one up one another about how amazing they are or how hardcore their lab is.

  • Yep.

    I worked at one for a few years. It had an endowment of like 750million... larger than most colleges and universities. It employed 20 people, 1/3 of whom was solely to manage the investment of the endowment on the stock market and who were paid 500K salaries to do so. Rest of us made barely livable wages. I was 22-25 and making 30K a year.

    It was under the guise of 'economic research' but all we really did was reward five or six figure grants to rich and powerful professors, lawyers, and politicians for 'furthering democratic values.'

    It was a just a way to shuffle money from the ultra rich to the merely rich and everyone got to pat themselves on the back about how heroic and brave they were for 'the greater good'.

    This is also the bullshit way that most rich universities justify their horrendous hording of wealth. That it's for the 'greater good', but all they are doing is enriching themselves and top echelons of the admin/professors, while the 99% of the rest of the employees who do 100% of the work are getting barely livable wages.