[tMcGrath]

As commenters elsewhere have pointed out, this really only caps salary at around £60k - this is actually pretty low for an experienced ML engineer.

I've heard Prof Pantic advocate for salary caps for PhD students leaving academia before and just can't understand it. It could mean that _all_ jobs must be capped - this seems like an overreaction to market dynamics in one corner of computer science. If not, is she advocating for salary caps for PhD students exclusively? This would be almost trivially easy to game and also downright exploitative.

In addition, we're told almost constantly how few academic jobs there are, and how we'll all have to leave academia. As soon as this starts to actually work well, suddenly it becomes a problem. I've tried to construct a strong/charitable version of this argument before and failed - does anyone have one?