I recently saw an exceptional early career scholar and mother of two young kids (one born in 2021) write on social media “I didn’t do well enough at work to get a cost-of-living increase last year.” I can’t get over it. This is a thread for academic people who decide raises. 1/n

— Thad Leffingwell, Ph.D. (@thadlab) March 13, 2022

Academia is such a scam. I see someone in that thread talking about a 1.5% merit raise. Bros and bro-ettes, inflation was 7% in the past year. If you aren’t getting that, you’re getting poorer.

But this was all part of the lockdown plan — making everyone poorer while the oligarchs got massively richer. And it worked fine and is still functioning as intended.