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steve · 455 days ago · link · · parent · post: “Entire areas of our shared history will never be known because no one will receive a living wage to uncover and study them.”
As a professor's kid, I had to chuckle at this. I'm not saying it isn't worse now... just saying it wasn't glorious in the 70s and 80s for professors. We lived in a decent neighborhood and had food and shelter... but we weren't "middle class" until my mom had been working full time for a decade.Jobs that used to allow professors to live middle-class lives