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Given how much work and poor pay is required to get a tenured position the pay is not good.

You only get bump pointer allocation in the nursery, not in the tenured generation (unless you want an inefficient tenured generation).

> You only get bump pointer allocation in the nursery, not in the tenured generation (unless you want an inefficient tenured generation).

Colleges are rapidly replacing their tenured faculty with adjuncts, who are given heavy courseloads, and paid peanuts even compared to tenured faculty (barely minimum wage, in a lot of cases).

Go look at at the tenured professors and you see they are well paid AND have security.

If adjuncts got high pay and the tenured had security it might work out that way, but it never does.

You can make a political statement if you're already tenured, but most don't have that luxury.

Certainly in my experience, only a minority of people starting PhDs do so with the explicit goal of attaining tenured professorship.

Accounting necessary for the tenured generation is also comparable to accounting for a malloc implementation.

Plenty of tenured professors and very well-paid research associates create these sorts of things...

A GC still has those same delays when freeing a large object graph (assuming that large object graph is in the tenured generation).

Most of the actual work of research and teaching is done by grad students, of whom there are far more than tenured faculty.

My main point is that not only is there "dualisation" like is proposed in the article but out of those who have made it into a tenured position there is another hard split between those academics that are creaming it and those that do ok.