system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
Where do you see academia in ten years?

With the value-added model of neoliberalism shrinking state funding budgets, shrinking tenure, and increased automation, where do you see the social sciences in ten years.

Is it totally and absolutely foolhardy to go into research in this day and age? Are researchers pushed to produce more and more at their own cost? Tenure was always what made academia worth it - you got paid less but could pursue what questions were important. With tenure dropping at ever increasing rates, what will the academic lifestyle be like in ten years?
gpt
Aging adjuncts everywhere replacing graduate labor, with fewer new scholars. Research subjects more and more limited by their attractiveness to external funding bodies. Grade inflation increasing as the "consumer" model for student engagement continues to take hold and student evals replacing research output in continuing employment decisions in the absence of tenure.

The upshot: hopefully also we'll see the key text in critical theory that will signal the eventual end of the Derrida/Foucault era. We might also see the beginnigs of a real commitment to grad programs training students to teach instead of treating them like apprentices.