One More Academic Rant

Re: those commentators who equate academics complaining about the adjunctification of their profession to starving, aspiring musicians, artists, athletes, etc; and worse, justify supply-and-demand as intrinsic goods.

Unlike musicians, artists, athletes, etc, our economy and society actually needs college professors to function and survive.  We've made a BA a necessity in our current economy, which means record numbers of people have to attend college, which means we need more qualified pr...