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Re:Life, work, death and the peasant: Rent and extraction by mcmoor on Saturday September 13, 2025 @12:52AM (#45229403)
I found the one for Sparta too emotionally charged for my interest. But I really really endorse most of the other ones especially ones touching in economics and logistics of ancient world.

(Btw he's not a tenured professor, much to his chagrin, he's an adjunct professor. This is exactly why he wrote A LOT about broken academia system too.)

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Re:Life, work, death and the peasant: Rent and extraction by dmbche on Saturday September 13, 2025 @01:31AM (#45229579)
That's an oddly specific thing to point out
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Re:Life, work, death and the peasant: Rent and extraction by mcmoor on Saturday September 13, 2025 @01:35AM (#45229602)
It's just funny since his blog is the entire reason I learned about the difference of adjunct and tenured professor, and why a big problem in academia is that they tenure less and less and rely on lots of adjunct professors instead.
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Re:Life, work, death and the peasant: Rent and extraction by theurerjohn3 on Saturday September 13, 2025 @02:59AM (#45229943)
There is a vast gap in how academia treats adjunct vs tenure track professors, a difference the author of this blog has spent a decent amount of words explaining and complaining about.
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