I was listening to Umano (an Android app) yesterday and heard this article from a magazine I had never heard of before – Jacobin.  The article:In the Name of LoveThe article is contrarian in nature and challenges the line heard from time to time: “Do what you love. Love what you do.”  The author generally makes the point that people who use that line (DWYL for short) are privileged and don't really face the plight of the regular folk who often times have to work at undesirable jobs out of necessity.But the part I want to highlight is this portion of the article.  I got the feeling that the author wrote the article from a quasi-Marxist standpoint, which makes it all the more interesting:

The reward for answering this higher calling is an academic employment marketplace in which around 41 percent of American faculty are adjunct professors — contract instructors who usually receive low pay, no benefits, no office, no job security, and no long-term stake in the schools where they work….how pervasively the DWYL doctrine is embedded in academia. Few other professions fuse the personal identity of their workers so intimately with the work output. This intense identification partly explains why so many proudly left-leaning faculty remain oddly silent about the working conditions of their peers. Because academic research should be done out of pure love, the actual conditions of and compensation for this labor become afterthoughts, if they are considered at all.

I hadn't thought of that before, but it's true; for how liberal academia is, I haven't heard the storm of college professors coming to the aid of the growing number of adjuncts who must labor and toil for relative scraps.  I think it's something to keep in mind in the trendy debate over so-called “income equality”.  There seems to be an oligarchic structure embedded into higher education which gets ignored by the same crowd which often calls out the capitalist structure of our economy.Thoughts?