[bell-cot]

Between the sunk-cost fallacy, and how many years both grad students and would-be grad students have spent on the ivory tower's propaganda treadmill, with little other (adult) life experience to be able to objectively judge things...

[TheRealPomax]

This sounds like a fantasy description of a post doc instead of normal real life people, so... maybe talk to some post-docs and learn what their life is really like before putting down entire groups of people for an internet point?