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"This is the enlightened case for why tenure exists. Academia requires intensive training for an uncertain future. As the joke goes, a doctoral student is one who foregoes present income so that they may forego future income. Universities are interested mainly in the superstars, but have to hire a bunch of promising mediocrities to get the best. If they simply fired everyone who turned out to be mediocre, very few people would ever enter to begin with."

I like this explanation.

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