#fuckthesystem PhD candidate at @HistoryatSU
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Congratulations! You’ve just been put in charge of DC Films! You have 3 movies to make before Warner Brothers is bought again and the company is reorganized.
What are your 3 movies?
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Adorno: "When philosophers, who are well known to have difficulty in keeping silent, engage in conversation, they should try always to lose the argument, but in such a way as to convict their opponent of untruth. The point should not be to have absolutely correct, irrefutable,
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Academics claiming TAing is not work tells me you were a terrible TA. Its not possible to do in "a few hrs/week"
I wasnt even in charge of developing my own courses but still had to:
1. Attend 2.5 hrs of lecture/week
2. Hold 3 hrs of recitation/week
3. Hold 2 office hrs/week
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James Gunn’s biggest weakness as a comic book film producer was perhaps his inability to sell snake oil. He keeps making it obvious that he hates how SUPERGIRL turned out. Meanwhile, Feige will look at you in the eyes and say RDJ Doom was the plan all along with a straight face.
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there are many ways for graduate students to make some extra money, such as start a lucrative poetry press or give an excellent conference paper
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Th PhD conversation comes down to 3 things for me. 1st, if we think research is valuable, then we simply have to pay people to do it, or it won’t be done. 2nd, if we don’t pay enough, only relatively wealthy/supported people will be able to do it. 3rd…
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I strongly suspect that envy is a driving force behind a great deal of the dismissiveness we’re seeing towards graduate students unionizing, as well as the minimization of what it’s actually like to be a young academic these days
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Hey, if you cross the Harvard Grad (and soon contingent) picket, I will scorn you forever. I still remember how much it sucks to be a grad student without a union. No, it’s not heterodox or cool or interesting to scab or support scabs. Grad students are workers, too!
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$25-30k stipends yearly would be an easier pill to swallow if the tuition waiver included a room & board waiver for the graduate apartments, but hahahahaha. Hahahahaha sorry about that that would be hilarious
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I received a stipend and it was life changing. I was then stripped of that stipend before completing my research/writing and it was life ruining. If you want intellectual production to happen, you gotta pay for people’s basic needs which includes a decent quality of life/savings.
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phd students deserve the moon. there are no jobs. the old trade (wasting career-making years as a broke student, in exchange for a stable life after it all) no longer exists. if they are now just prestige tokens for their supervisors and institutions, at least pay them for it!
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As someone who worked on a graduate union campaign for 5 years and is in a PhD program that pays $21k, the most frustrating thing I hear repeatedly from faculty and admin is, "Well I was poor in grad school too!" Inequity isn't a rite of passage. We all deserve a living wage.
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Any academic who unironically cites "free tuition" as part of a graduate student's compensation package should be instantly disqualified from weighing in on labor issues
A $51,000 annual stipend, combined with free tuition and health insurance, produces a total annual compensation package exceeding $100,000. In exchange, students work approximately 20 hours per week for say four 14-week semesters over five years. This amounts to just 1,120 hours of work over the entire five-year period, yielding an effective hourly compensation of more than $450 -- over 18 times the median hourly wage of an American worker. Even if you write off the free tuition, this wage is around 9x that of the median US worker.
Not to mention that you walk away with a Harvard PhD when all is said and done. Good work if you can get it.
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Exploited workers are exploited workers. Every uni laborer should be unionizing, striking, and negotiating what it means to build a future while in grad school. We do not need to be punching down at one another. Everyone deserves to build a life who works in this industry. 4/4
