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> Academics draw a salary to do their job, but when they go AWOL on tasks critical to their profession suddenly they're all unpaid volunteers. This Is Fine.

Academics are paid by grants to work on concrete research and by their institution to work on tasks institution pays for. These institutions do not pay for general "tasks critical to their profession".

> This Is Fine.

That is as much fine as me not working on an open source project on my employer time.




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