Which value and recognition are you talking about? Their papers are almost never cited [0].
Soldiers, and defense in general, are part of the main things a government should provide (we can discuss how much, but that is another discussion).
I am not sure why you say nurses cannot produce salaries. Nurses work in the private sector and provide substantial value.
I do not have it in for academics specifically. In fact, I used to be one. What I am saying is that they are mostly disposable and think of themselves as some superior value.
In the UK in particular, education used to be tuition-free. Now they are running more as a business. I do not see the point of forcing subsidies on people who produce something that not even other academics are interested in. You are basically paying people to sit in a room and discuss something by themselves. Why does a minimum wage worker have to subsidies that? We are all getting hit by inflation, some more than others. Academia is a job with zero risk involved. I don't think it is fair to keep subsidising the dream of a few while having so many better uses for the money, or even reducing the tax burden on society.
[0] https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2014/04/23/ac...
Soldiers, and defense in general, are part of the main things a government should provide (we can discuss how much, but that is another discussion).
I am not sure why you say nurses cannot produce salaries. Nurses work in the private sector and provide substantial value.
I do not have it in for academics specifically. In fact, I used to be one. What I am saying is that they are mostly disposable and think of themselves as some superior value.
In the UK in particular, education used to be tuition-free. Now they are running more as a business. I do not see the point of forcing subsidies on people who produce something that not even other academics are interested in. You are basically paying people to sit in a room and discuss something by themselves. Why does a minimum wage worker have to subsidies that? We are all getting hit by inflation, some more than others. Academia is a job with zero risk involved. I don't think it is fair to keep subsidising the dream of a few while having so many better uses for the money, or even reducing the tax burden on society.
[0] https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2014/04/23/ac...