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The future of being a professor

I am wondering what you guys think will be in store for the future of being professors/researchers in academia. Right now everyone complains it's impossible to get TT jobs and they feel like their PhD was a waste of time because they're never going to 'make it'. But do you anticipate any changes happening? Will grad school admissions become tighter, stopping the overflow of PhD grads? Or will less people apply, because they feel discouraged about the crummy job market. Or maybe the 'professor population' is ageing, and a bunch of retirements are set to happen in the next few years. I guess what I'm asking is, where do you find your hope?
gpt
Well most of the boomer profs have not retired yet, it’s pretty hard to get profs to retire, but they are close, so yea the job market might soften a little in the next 10 years. But no, schools will not slow down their acceptance of doctoral students, so there will still likely be more PhDs than prof jobs.