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Yeah, I agree that most faculty are underpaid, especially in the humanities. Also, I agree that universities should have more tenure-track Teaching Faculty (whose main job is being good teachers to undergraduates) rather than just having part-time adjuct faculty or research-focused professors who don't really want to teach.
I didn't mean to sound like I was defending the status quo. Just that there are a lot of career considerations that I didn't learn "until it was too late" that I was hoping to communicate to younger generations.
That's fair, and I think a realistic view of the current situation is definitely beneficial for aspiring academics, especially given the current "academic industrial complex" pumping out PhDs far faster than jobs open up.