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I agree (academic research scientist, geosciences, now semi-retired). The current system is utterly unsustainable. Many outside academia are unaware how much universities rely on federal funding of indirect costs, and although the overhead rate continues to creep, the university itself supplies less and less real support. I also don't know how it will end or how the bubble will burst, but the entire enterprise is suffering from unsustainable costs and corruption of ideals.