[dcarmo]

It's interesting that your feeling that "academia is dying, and dare i say irrelevant", to me, is exactly what brought us here and to the status quo you're complaining about. Maybe return to academia and improve things there?

[henriquez]

Can you elaborate on this? How did the decline of academia lead to the status quo posed by the OP? And how would returning to academia make any difference? My perception is that there are bad financial incentives driving the decline of academia, so I don’t necessarily believe it’s a problem that can be solved entirely within the system.