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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
Why is academia such bullshit?

I'll save you all a long rant. I just don't understand why the culture of academia is so toxic. The writing clogged with jargon. The jobs scarce.

Why did academia become so soul-crushing?
gpt
More soul-crushing than coal mining?  Than waitressing?   Than factory work?   More soul crushing than being a novelist who can't publish?  A secretary bored out of her mind?  An insurance salesman who could have been contender?

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I think we overdramatize.   There's no more jargon here than there is at, say Google.   The job market is indeed tight, but so is the job market in professional football, in painting, and for calligraphers.   If you don't like it, you don't like it.  But it's not the worst thing ever.   The work is clean and you get to sit down, at least.