[scythe]

>hard to get a real academic position

Tech companies like to rob the cradle, and academic departments hire far more grad students and postdocs than professors. Of course, this is also part of the problem with academic careers.

[epolanski]

Academia is a pyramid like every organization.

Of course you will have less spots as you go up the ladder.

[reverius42]

Why does every organization have to be a pyramid (scheme)?