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Seen today in a legacy social media platform:

A person publishes a post to announce that she got a tenure track position in academia. On the same post, she then proceeds to complain about the fact that first paycheck won’t arrive until the end of month and posts cashapp and venmo links to ask for donations (cause why not!?)

Dog, wtf!?!?

Do you realize the privilege you have after having secured such a position? Where does this strong sense of entitlement to keep on begging for money online come from?

The lack of self-awareness is astonishing beyond belief. 🤯

Sedj 2y ago

All academia knows is how to beg for money. The entire goal of academia is to secure the next donation, grant, or other source of funding to keep the organization (and orgamism) alive.

So why wouldn't a tenured (recently or otherwise) member of academia believe they are entitled to your money?

Just like the "poor" person who has only known free healthcare, food, shelter, cell phone, etc., never having actually worked for any of it? (This is not the same as someone who did work, but failed to plan for a circumstance that resulted in them no longer working).

When someone is given everything they need to succeed, they never learn how to succeed, how to work toward a goal, how to have pride in themselves and their work.

If someone is taught that begging is the only way to success, they will become adept at begging, rather than working.

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joiestylotus 2y ago

Not quite but securing funding for research is obvi very important in academia.

Do you have experience in academia or know/have spoken with professors and others in academic world to know what it’s about?

Another question: do you actually know any low income or socioeconomically disadvantaged “poor” people? Have you had any conversations with them or socialized with any blue collar people?

Contrary to your assumptions about those who receive free healthcare, food, shelter, cell phone, etc — you infer that they’re just lazy people who are laying around begging for free stuff and have a sense of entitlement — that is NOT the case majority of the time.

I’m going to make a guess that your frame of reference (family, friends, network) is upper middle class and up people, mostly white?

I suggest you try mentoring a low income/“poor” person and actually talk to some of them one-on-one, as a human being (without judgment) to get a sense of what life is really like for them.

Perhaps you can open doors and help them succeed. Opportunities and knowledge are NOT equal in society and there’s a correlation with money and race/ethnicity/sex that a person is born into.