Comment by knottn
11 hours ago
Thanks for a summary. Based on your summary, I think the parent is directionally correct, at least. All of this seems like panic and attempt to salvage a profession, seeking control and money and other people to do stuff, now! It’s not like this is isolated to university labor. It will kill universities yes, but it will kill a lot of bigger and more important things, likely humanity itself will be killed off. That’s the context.
i see this phrase thrown about a lot but have not seen any "here is how humanity is killed off" scenarios described, not even bad ones much less plausible ones. As long as we dont have a hankering for paperclips that is