[lupire]

> are a lot more valuable than the university would like you to believe.

Category error. Correction: You have the ability to do outside work that pays more than anything the University needs.

It's not the university's fault if you want to do a low value research job at the university.

[seoaeu]

The rate universities charge external funding agencies for one hour or one year of grad student research work is substantially higher than what the student gets paid for that amount of work