system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
Anybody else feel like they are being exploited as a T.A.?

I'm in a graduate program focusing on English Studies. I teach English 101 and am the only instructor on record for the course meaning for all intent and purposes I make the course, I teach the course, and assign grades. This is not the case for STEM T.A.'s who are, well, assistants to a professor in a big class. They generally work less than 20 hours a week while the English T.A.'s work well over 30 and are required to generate a lot of their own content.

Somehow we get paid about 2 grand less a year as well. Not sure who did that math but it's frustrating as hell.

I've lost almost all my dreams of a career in academia after only one quarter. My hair is falling out and I feel like my existence is meaningless except to generate more money for the university.

EDIT: I didn't go into academia expecting money. I didn't go into academia expecting a job afterwards. I didn't go into academia thinking it would be easy. I am not a STEM-bashing humanities diehard; I'm upset that my discipline isn't valued. And I'm upset that I'm not valued.
gpt
Graduate student labor exploitation is real.

Similarly, humanities labor being perceived as less valuable than STEM labor--mostly due to the ability of the latter to generate/procure grant money etc.--is also real.