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donnachangstein 85 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Amazon plans to lay off 14,000 managerial position...

> in university research labs, as a PhD student, post-doc, or professor, you manage yourself

That is not the real world.

Turns out working for your brother-in-law they let you manage yourself too.

tensor 85 days ago [–]

Yes, it is the "real world" for research, of which industry does nearly zero. Research pushes humanity forward. The sort of anti-intellectualism in your comment is part of what is causing the decline we are seeing in society today.

Redoubts 84 days ago | [–]

> research, of which industry does nearly zero

wrong and painfully ignorant

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