> On one hand I can make a joke that you are defending the only job on Earth that not only gets paid but can't get fired past a certain point due to their 'tenure.'
You could, but the premise is wildly false; tenured professors can get fired for cause (and tend to have some process protections alongside that), and tenured professors aren’t the only workers with contracts or legal protection that restrict firing to “for cause” (pretty much all high level employees with individual contracts like—but not limited to—executives have that, maybe with a high-priced buyout option, though without or with limited process protections), and most unionized workers and most (even if not unionized) public workers have both limitations to firing (or other adverse actions) for-cause and strong due process protections.
You could, but the premise is wildly false; tenured professors can get fired for cause (and tend to have some process protections alongside that), and tenured professors aren’t the only workers with contracts or legal protection that restrict firing to “for cause” (pretty much all high level employees with individual contracts like—but not limited to—executives have that, maybe with a high-priced buyout option, though without or with limited process protections), and most unionized workers and most (even if not unionized) public workers have both limitations to firing (or other adverse actions) for-cause and strong due process protections.