Yes. I’m aware. thanks for telling me what I already know.
I’m also aware how people use such language in order to sound smarter and more erudite than they actually are.
You make it or you don’t
This is laughable on it’s face. I’ve seen plenty of incredibly talented and brilliant people not make it, not because their work wasn’t good enough, but for other reasons (they weren’t willing to suck up, to play the game, to move across country every 2 years, etc, etc, etc, into infinity). Academia is not and has never been a metritocracy. It’s a crap shoot, and those who are lucky enough to be born into a privileged position, to be able to abandon everything else to their career, and who happen to know just the right people succeed.
