• vortic@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    As an academic, if I could make $1M/year by showing my body on OF, I would quit my job in a heartbeat. I would make my money while I can and reassess when no one is interested anymore.

    Once I’d made my money, maybe I could use my academic expertise to effect some real change in the world. I’d certainly be more capable of making an impact if I were independently wealthy.

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      3 days ago

      Okay thanks for sharing with the world that you’re greedy and arrogant.

      Why not just finish your degree and then model? If you’re already in a program that means you’ve completed all of the prerequisite education so it’s only whatever remains of the 3 years the program takes to finish, 4 maximum. You’re not going to age out of modelling in 2 years time.

      Let’s be completely honest, if you dropped out in the middle of your PhD study to go earn money, you’re probably never going back.

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        3 days ago

        Our system promotes greed, in fact it operates purely on optimizing for greed.