system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
Why finding academic jobs is more difficult today compared to how it used to be?

This might be a very stupid question, in which case sorry. 

But I’m ignorant. Why finding jobs in academia today, becoming professors and etc is more difficult than it was in the past ?
gpt
Many things, as other already mentioned. The management is also interested in having temporary/adjunct staff because they can be controlled much easier. Firing a tenured professor is difficult, with an adjunct, you simply don't extend the contract. Problem is that many incompetent people got tenure back in the day and they are still running the show.