JamD
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Going off on a tangent here but being a professor is a very noble profession. Like being a doctor or a solider for the following reasons:plagiarism is one thing, incompetence is another. recently, an experienced prof from comsats-isb proudly told me how he has published some works on AI. he gave me the paper that he had published, and it was total garbage. and the guy was practically chest thumping himself for the publication.
1. You are supposed to be the expert in your field and most other people in the universities usually take what you have at face value.
2. At least here in the USA you get half or less the money than you would if you would have gone into industry.
3. You are impacting 100s of students each year, hundreds of thousands in your career.
Now in Pakistan:
1. You can have a PhD and be extremely incompetent, tell you're the best and people believe it because you're supposed to be the expert and only another expert can call your bluff. Well there are so few other experts that you'll be fine. The other experts are probably also fooling everybody. Plus you've learnt the art of sychophany so your bosses love you.
2. We have no industry and professor jobs pay quite well in Pakistan compared to other options. So it is quite a lucrative business proposition to get a PhD by hook or crook become a professor publish garbage and you're set for life. It's the new age sarkari naukri.
3. You're ready to destroy generations of people with your garbage knowledge that some of your lucky students who go elsewhere will have to unlearn.