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Re:Administrators Have Seized the Ivory Tower by jojobas on Monday December 05, 2022 @02:12AM (#33862490)
It is indeed a Ponzi scheme backed by government education loans. Pretty much the only way for an Egyptologist to make money is to teach more Egyptologists. Guess what, one day even the option to learn interesting stuff on the "future me"'s dime will not be attractive enough.
Re:Administrators Have Seized the Ivory Tower by jmopp on Monday December 05, 2022 @02:55AM (#33862757)
There was a post a few days ago about Roman Egypt that mentioned how there are so many papyri that are just sitting there and not enough trained Egyptologists to read, translate, and contextualise them. There is clear value in training Egyptologists, since by learning more about Egypt's place in the Roman empire, we can learn more about Western society (as we are in some sense descendents of the Roman Empire) as well as Middle-Eastern society (as Egypt was one of the first huge conquests from the Romans by the Rashidun Caliphate, and thus an early example of how the Middle East became Islamic)
Re:Administrators Have Seized the Ivory Tower by jojobas on Monday December 05, 2022 @03:39AM (#33863001)
The problem is that no government or other entity is willing to hire 1000 Egyptologists for their lifetimes in order to translate and digitize all that papyrwork, as there is perceived value of their contents is Not That High.
Re:Administrators Have Seized the Ivory Tower by tonto on Monday December 05, 2022 @05:17AM (#33863651)
sounds like ya might want a computational egyptologist
Re:Administrators Have Seized the Ivory Tower by quickthrower2 on Monday December 05, 2022 @05:54AM (#33863943)
All roads lead to ChatGPT this week
Re:Administrators Have Seized the Ivory Tower by biofox on Monday December 05, 2022 @06:31AM (#33864213)
That's why researchers also lecture. They get paid for the latter (in a closely aligned topic), with some small amount of time to perform the former.