> The point is that this is the system and it has been for decades, and everybody involved knew it and knows it.
This system is also why I didn't get much from my grants because the university took out the "tuition". So just because everyone knows it and has been around is not a good enough reason to keep it around. With that approach nothing would ever change.
> but this is not some kind of swindle universities have been getting away with, it's the system working as it was designed to work.
Paying students $10-$30k a year doing cutting edge research is not what I call "working as designed". This is often coming from institution with billions of dollar in endowments.
This system is also why I didn't get much from my grants because the university took out the "tuition". So just because everyone knows it and has been around is not a good enough reason to keep it around. With that approach nothing would ever change.
> but this is not some kind of swindle universities have been getting away with, it's the system working as it was designed to work.
Paying students $10-$30k a year doing cutting edge research is not what I call "working as designed". This is often coming from institution with billions of dollar in endowments.