Infelicidad Academica

Es probable que mi opinion este sesgada en estos momentos, pero tambien es es una opinion informada al respecto. Dicho esto, nunca habia estado mas de acuerdo con una respuesta como la siguiente a la pregunta de por que los academicos son mas infelices:

"Most Americans work in a money economy. The good thing about a money-based economy is that wealth is inherently a positive-sum game. Sure, there are some zero-sum aspects to it, but more money for by neighbor doesn't mean less for me. Thus, it is possible for all of us to get richer without any inherent zero-sum rivalry.

Academia, by contrast, is a status-based economy rather than a money-based economy. Status, unlike income, is an inherently zero-sum game. I can only have more status if you have less--status is all relative and positional. This means that at any given time those with less status are trying to gain more status. And those with high status are tenuously trying to hold on to their high status--with the threats coming from those with lower status trying to knock them off."

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