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A famous recipe for rabbit stew starts off, "First catch a rabbit ...." A recipe for applied research starts off, "First get an application ...." The article has, "These companies can afford to set up big labs with lots of PhDs and pay them to do whatever the hell they want with little accountability, but maybe this model is no longer sustainable." Thanks a lot former Harvard prof: That's an insult to Ph.D. holders, cuts them off at the knees, and is a great recipe for Ph.D. unemployment: Or, just why will the lowest non-Ph.D. manager in a management chain want to bet their budget and part of their career on "PhDs and pay them to do whatever the hell they want with little accountability"? Just what is it about wasting time you find so attractive? If you want to sit in a small, closed, dark room and engage in intellectual self-abuse, first make, marry, and/or inherit some money and then go for it. For the rest of us who sacrificed a LOT and got a Ph.D., JUST to be, and ONLY to be, better qualified to contribute to both top and bottom lines of accounting income statements, please cut the insults. |