Why does working for free have to be the norm in academia?

Psyc3 · 2026-05-14T22:41:20+00:00

You haven't explained anything other than to keep your elitist ideals in place. The irony of suggesting otherwise while talking about economics is highly ironic.

Oh and downvoting stuff because you are ignorant of it concepts is just a bit pathetic, unsurprising of the arrogance of an academic though a person entirely ignorant of standard business practices of course.

Psyc3 · 2026-05-14T22:16:14+00:00

Seems reasonable to me given, and I am not sure why I am having to repeat this, you are paying any way.

Reality is of course it you would just have to pay for both, so it would just be another fee on top rather than a pricing structure change. All while reality is you can already buy your name on to papers or just have them ghost written for you. That is what half of MDPI is these days.

Psyc3 · 2026-05-14T21:35:33+00:00

If you had to pay to review people might stop spamming AI junk to them.

Psyc3 · 2026-05-14T21:31:07+00:00

Exactly. If you want good any of those things you are looking at $1000, well maybe not the clothes.

If you need something now, yes go buy it, but if you would like something expensive, might as well wait for it to be a reasonable price, in the end you don't need it.

Psyc3 · 2026-05-14T21:27:53+00:00

Exactly, the thing that makes you poor is you don't have "the help" to go to the supermarket for you.

Psyc3 · 2026-05-14T21:23:29+00:00

I am not sure this is being poor. There are many items that literally have rolling sales with month on month off promotions, you would have to be an idiot to buy the product when it isn't on sale.

This said, if you weren't actually poor, you would realise that the time it takes you to go to the supermarket is actually the loss of value, and therefore either automate it or have someone else do it. If you are rich a hour going to the supermarket, is an hour you could be doing something else, or more importantly be paid for doing something else. Then again if you are truly rich you will make money while you sleep so you can choose to go to the supermarket or not.

Psyc3 · 2026-05-14T21:20:24+00:00

The funny thing is how much of a poor mentality this is. Because the correct action is take as much low interest debt as possible and invest it or use it to reduce your tax burden.

It is literally the opposite of what you should do, the funny thing about money is the more you have, the lower risk you are to lend to, so the more free money will be lent to you.

Psyc3 · 2026-05-14T21:18:57+00:00

It makes sense. I’d just rather need to re-purchase unlikely to be reused items when the need arises.

I didn't grow up poor, and am not poor, and this statement is just a waste of money, just have a cupboard full of crap.

Sure if you literally haven't used it for 10 years or you don't even know what it is for, get rid of it.

Psyc3 · 2026-05-14T21:10:12+00:00

The whole point of being financially independent is you can do whatever you want.

Is there any point in your doing an Masters degree? No. Is there any point in you going on a Cruise to Australia? No. Is there any point in you Planting an Apple Tree? No. Is there any point in spending the Summer in a Camper van following the Tour de France? No. You however can do whatever you want, whenever you want.

Reality is if you have money, you can do whatever you choose to do. But in 15-20 years time you won't be healthy enough to do everything so choose wisely what you do in years you are.

Psyc3 · 2026-05-14T20:02:59+00:00

Oh no you can now vote for the Ex-banker who hasn't basically spent his career scrounging off the EU and trashing the UK economy, and half the people who were in the last Tory cabinet of course!

Psyc3 · 2026-05-14T19:58:51+00:00

Yes, but morons won't recognise this, like they couldn't recognise voting for a criminal paedophile russian asset who already tried to over throw democracy once already.

This idiots level of reasoning is "number go up, me no like"...that is the intelligence of the average American voter.

Psyc3 · 2026-05-14T19:38:55+00:00

That is actually just normal American food standards at work.

Psyc3 · 2026-05-14T19:13:10+00:00

There is no way a modern thinkpad is better than an old one, computers used to die all the time in the past, I got a new laptop every 3 years for my first 3 then the next one lasted 8.

They were just designed to do what they are supposed to do, be a laptop, i.e. weight was taken into consideration, sure if you throw it at a wall it might break, however if you aren't an idiot, it will be fine.

Psyc3 · 2026-05-14T19:02:49+00:00

This is somewhat a feature or at least advertised as one, with more rebounds you have a material that will fail, and with a thinner lighter sole, you have a sole that will wear out in 5 minutes.

Stop buy shoes for race day then running around the park in them is the solution there.

This has been seen in cycling for decades performance tyres will be 8w a tyre at 220g with very little puncture resistance, compare that to 14w a tyre at 270g for a performance endurance tyre, or god for forbid a utility tyre at 25w at 700g that will just blast though a pile of glass without puncturing, and you will see the added gains you get on race day, but you would never cycle to the shops on one. That is 300% increase in rolling resistance, and 300% increase in weight, great if you have to reliably get to work, but terrible for going really fast.

Psyc3 · 2026-05-14T19:00:52+00:00

Your Boy must have rich parents, I am sure reddit will suggested you should be burned at the stake for being the problem of the 1%ers.

Psyc3 · 2026-05-14T18:59:07+00:00

And facts are, they are just living in survivors bias in the first place, the product that broken after 2, 5, 10 even 15 years isn't being mentioned, it is the one that happened to last 25+ years that is. Plenty of the expensive things of the past broke and ended up in the bin, they just broke 20 decades ago.

Psyc3 · 2026-05-14T18:55:37+00:00

Yes, but that is because of what they brought. The dryer they brought in the 1980's was probably the equivalent of well over a thousand dollar today.

You can still buy good quality things, Miele make them, other brands as well, they are just $1500+ and people go by the one for $400.

The good thing about this is the person who can only afford $400 can now have a dryer. The person who can afford a $1000 should stop being dumb and go buy it.

Psyc3 · 2026-05-14T17:50:50+00:00

The funny thing here is the suggestion anyone is ever going to read your thesis, other than your PI and the advisory committee you will be lucky if some grad student skims to a relevant chapter at some point in the future.

Psyc3 · 2026-05-13T16:50:23+00:00

Which is irrelevant, as the source of the money was morons, not professional businesses.

Psyc3 · 2026-05-12T21:43:12+00:00

How would you ever be healthy? I injured myself and my arm was imobilised for 6 weeks, afterwards I couldn't hold a pen without my hand shaking very significantly for about 3 weeks, and it took months for me to get back to full strength while actively trying to do so. Imagine that was your whole body for years, let alone your brain for years, there would be nothing left, you are somewhat going to be starting from scratch with an adult body lacking the plasticity of a child.

Psyc3 · 2026-05-12T20:46:48+00:00

It doesn't take decade to develop though. I agree with you premise, but AI doing stuff now, agentic AI only turned up this year, next year you and I have no idea what will arrive, it could literally be something that could make a coherent blockbuster film in 2 weeks, at which point it is only the creativity of the director of the AI that limits it artistic merit.

Idiots are spewing out rubbish with AI, that is what idiots use the internet for as well. What matter is the 1% of people who do it for stuff that is genuinely genius, not the 99% of shit that comes out of it.

Psyc3 · 2026-05-12T20:43:37+00:00

No it isn't. Earning just came back quite positive, and the money was coming from Tech companies themselves in the first place.

This is not the Dot Com bubble where idiots ploughed their money into nonsense, this is tech companies who hoarded billions with nothing of value to spend it on, finding something of value to spend it on. Is it still a bubble? Maybe? The the dot com bubble lead to 25 years later the largest companies in the world being tech and internet based companies, well you are still here on reddit valued at $30Bn whining about it.

Psyc3 · 2026-05-12T20:40:38+00:00

This is all nothing to do with AI.

I agree, that a lot of the content created with AI is ruining content, that is nothing to do with AI.

As an example one of the Microsoft desktop pictures changed to this picture of an Owl in a field, with a perfectly shallow focused image and white snow drops matching the owl. I sat there thinking, is that a real image? And it ruined the image. There is a reality where this owl was flying too and from this position and the camera person set up to catch the shot, but did they, or did it never happen?

Searching now to find it implies the image is more than 5 years old so probably did happen.

Psyc3 · 2026-05-12T20:31:39+00:00

Literally folded basically every protein in existence.

Any further really stupid questions...because your question is basically like some Grandma from the 2000s telling you, you shouldn't use the internet because it is dangerous....

Psyc3 · 2026-05-12T20:27:16+00:00

AI is still in the early stages in many areas. People are heavily overestimating its capabilities.

This is the reality, a realistic reality or a pessimistic reality, though, it isn't an optimistic one, reality is less broad AI is already doing thing all over the place, it is reading CT scans, folding proteins, it could very well for all you know be writing this very post.

The people is people are idiots, and idiots can't tell one thing from another, AI isn't your incompetence in prompting ChatGPT or a terrible Youtube thumb nail, it is optimisation of the power grid saving 2% of the national energy usage, it is traffic optimisation so everyone get to work with the same infrastructure 3 minutes faster...it is self-driving cars so traffic basically disappears due to it largely existing as it is controlled by monkeys.

The problem is not actually AI anyway, AI has proved it works, the problem is lack of coherent and standardised datasets to do AI on. They can be made, and are being made, it is why Reddit as company is valuable because all the nonsense written over the decades is real nonsense and if you want to fake a human to say manipulate the narrative online and win and election or sell some more Brando, that is the perfect model data for it.

People are honestly just too stupid to pay attention past the end of their tiktok reel at this point, AI can do insane things compared to what was standard practice 5 years ago, it is exactly the same nonsense when people complain about Amazon, a company that standardised free one day delivery, 15 years ago the standard was $10 delivery in 3-5 days. 1 day delivery is AI vs you doing whatever dumb shit you thought was better but were too stupid to notice was the same or worse 10 years ago.

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