John Oliver did a whole show on Boeing’s evolution from a company run by engineers to a takeover to an upper management and the board dominated by financial people put there to represent shareholders’ short-term values, including cost cutting for ‘efficiencies’, stock buybacks to enrich themselves instead of using revenues for research, maintenance, etc.
I was a TA at Ohio Univ in the 1960s; we had an annual trimester teaching load (except summers) just one course less than the faculty (5 instead of 6). We were told that the place couldn’t afford a general raise because half the courses were being taught by TAs (some may have assisted the profs, labs and so forth, but we had our own courses, mostly freshman & sophomore level).
Yakety yak (Don’t talk back)