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This article shows a gross ignorance of the reality. Academic sciences especially are woefully under funded and anyone coming out now with a PhD has no position to go into especially if you are half decent. Accepting to only teach in a crap university and struggle to have a research career is not a choice for competent people. Instead they leave once they fully understand the insermountable task of obtaining a decent life in the academic world is. Worse is the younger 40-45 yol academics think people now face the same world they did. Whereas there has been a 10x increase in PhD graduates since they went looking for a position. The number of available jobs has not dramatically increased at all. This and the stochastic nature of funding of grant proposals means no one chooses to remain in academia. Apart from the top 1% or the no hopers who think being a stooge for the next 40 years is admirable and they should take one for the team to pursue "science". The reality is research jobs outside of academia are obviously booming with this sudden availability of talented and highly educated work force.