[gs17]

>This doesn't have to be ruinously expensive.

Having been the "single dude", the issue is not that they are paying lecturers too much for this service, doubly so for adjuncts.

[Spivak]

I think this is the strongest disagreement I have gotten from someone who understands my point completely and agrees with it.

This is exactly why I'm saying that university can be made orders of magnitude less expensive is because the primary educational value you get which comes from professors lecturers, and TA's is not expensive at all. Everything else is negotiable and an opportunity to make cuts.