Why

is this system

https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2019/04/adjunct-professors-higher-education-thea-hunter/586168/

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so sad

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/09/higher-education-college-adjunct-professor-salary/404461/