"What's wrong with poor performance leading to poverty?"
- It incentivizes fraud.
If the only way to avoid a McDonald-level job is a ground-breaking paper, you'll be willing to fake that ground-breaking paper, especially since if you're caught, you can still get the McDonald-level job sooner or later.
I am referring to a lot of current conditions, where adjunct professorships are paid at close to bare survival wages and "superstars" get substantial compensation.
- It incentivizes fraud.
If the only way to avoid a McDonald-level job is a ground-breaking paper, you'll be willing to fake that ground-breaking paper, especially since if you're caught, you can still get the McDonald-level job sooner or later.
I am referring to a lot of current conditions, where adjunct professorships are paid at close to bare survival wages and "superstars" get substantial compensation.