Academic life offers neither real money nor real power

Evidence

I must confess that I never had much taste for administrative responsibilities. Had that been my desire, I would have either gone into business, in pursuit of real money, or into government, in pursuit of real power. I would not have stayed in the university, where neither the money nor the power is real. The satisfactions of the scholarly life are of quite a different character. — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 91

Categorization

• CANDY: A neat, self-deprecating one-liner about academic incentives that lands in casual conversation.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans: Interpreting…, 91
• XREF: connects to: Neoliberal values have displaced academic vocation’s traditional disinterest in money. — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s…, 688