Answers I gave to questions today included:
– No, you cannot get that type and level of Federal funding for individual research in a field in which you have no education or practical experience.
– No, what a class collectively pays in tuition and fees is not the amount an adjunct gets paid per course. No agency or business works like that. (Why is it always Republicans and Libertarians, people who otherwise profess horror at profit sharing and all forms of collectivism, who forget about overhead and surplus value when it suits them?)
– No, having a research degree does not simply mean that a professor showed you where in the stacks, in your university library, to find books for your specific project. It means at a minimum that you know how to find things in general.
Axé.
coldhearted scientist وداد 
Killjoy!
The idiocy is pretty bad. I feel for you.
Each of these questions came from a person with some form of advanced degree.
Hey, Profa. I know a number of people who’ve actually made a living by practicing capitalism (i.e., putting money out there to make money). None of them take the libertarian rhetoric as anything but utter naivete, a joke, or some kind of scam. So far as I know, libertarianism is a philosophy by and for extremely sheltered people.
I agree utterly.
Don’t think you know a darn thing about Libertarianism, commenters. If you’re going to be scholars, do your research and stop confusing the movement with Republicans or anti-profit sharing (which has been pioneered by Libertarians)…
Would anyone like to speak to that, class? 😉
Robert do you have a specific criticism of something posted?
He says profit sharing is a Libertarian program (they pioneered it?!), Libertarians are not like Republicans, and that I was wrong to conflate these things and you, to more or less accept the conflation.
Oh, ok. Well I believe that, profit sharing can be more or less a Libertarian concept. Sounds at least as Libertarian as it does leftish. Wall Street traders were & are compensated largely in that way, except that naively short-term measures of corporate “profit” are in place, which are easily abused. The Libertarians I know are — I believe — naive and idealistic, but they aren’t traditional pro-business Republicans (who are more sensible about capitalism but are working to turn us all into minimum-wage production units).