Since long, the rules of minimum wages & superannuation contributions don't apply to research "students" who are the backbone of research & teaching at Australian universities.
Now, external-funded researchers on precarious short-term work contracts are being pushed to the same permanent underclass.
TECH BILLIONAIRES (rubbing hands together): "Let's buy beloved public institutions—and ruin them!"
ALTMAN (scoffs): "Noobs. I didn't have to *buy* the internet to ruin it."
BEZOS and WALTON look at one another across the empty main streets of a thousand American towns: "You nerds think too small."
