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Sure, worth a thought, but I've got a bunch of friends in unstable academic jobs and from this angle it's like attacking lazy Amazon workers because you don't like Bezos.
Anyway I'm not trying to have argument, just saying that if you put all those comments together they might not come across how you'd like them to. And probably am mildly frustrated because I've got COVID.
Enjoy your drink
frankenbike
Agreed, it's a bit heavy-handed, particularly on this forum, although at the time I think I was trying to be deliberately provocative.
I don't believe I called all university workers lazy, just some, which at the time I explained was based on my own observations during a brief career in academia.
In terms of a left wing argument regarding the issues faced by university workers - if you really wanted to you could take up a position that higher education has been commodified, and those who benefit from that process have directly benefited for the exploitation of another group (students) for their own financial gain. I think it's a consideration that many students are basically being ripped by the current system and that there is a relatively large academic 'class' that's doing quite nicely thank you on the back of that.
Worth a thought at least, no?