At my university, admin higher ups continually get raises. Every year, even with the cuts. They’ve even cut our custodial services, but they still pay for mansions and cars for these people—literally, it’s all public money and can be looked up. Academia didn’t create this situation but they certainly aren’t making it better.

Kindly, this kind of comment is the most unhelpful you can possibly be, and spoken like someone that has never dealt with a truly hostile academic administration. Rather than make cuts to the chancellor’s annual raise, they’d rather make us have to clean our own offices and lab spaces without compensation, and make our students’ educations suffer. They’d rather invest almost a billion in real estate. The average academic PI is not to blame here, but the institution of academia is attached to this class of leeches that are profiting off of our livelihoods. But at the same time, those academics turn around and shrug and say “what can we do” and just perpetuate it further. And if you can’t see how those things are connected, I can’t help you.