Except that the demand for publishing lots of papers
It's 4 papers over 3 years. That's hardly lots. That's not nothing to be sure, but it's easily manageable. Besides, it has to be any 'research output', so intermediate steps probably count. Might not be the best approach, but it is better than let people sit around and do naught.
The professors who follow your advice and focus on teaching rather than publishing make up the bulk of the people being fired here
Which is exactly what the parent comment is complaining about. Sacking people who probably focus on teching and don't bother publishing. However, I do agree that if a professor wants focus solely on teaching, he should get a teaching only position, which the University on the post seems to be offering for a few of them.
And what about your body?
Bro, PURE ETHANOL! Haven't you been to frat parties? We will inherit the earth, after eating food that has been in the fridge for months, not changing sheets for about a year and sleeping (or rather passing out cold) in the mud for years we are nearly invincible. Except for finals. They always manage to get us somehow...
there are ways to produce goods without any of these things. the most productive nation on earth in the 20th century was the united states
And it got that way by being the United States in the 19th century. Crack a history book.
In fact, China will probably skip quite a few phases of the development cycle, with working conditions evolving faster than they have in OECD nations. The average wage for someone working in manufacture tripled in ten years (from 1995 to 2005), which is a ridiculous amount when you consider how much the sector grew during that period. And aside from systematic raping of employees (I Lol'd) the USA (as the European nations and Japan) did ALL of the above during industrialization. By the way, us people in finance most of you revile so dearly still work 80 hours a week. On average.
"I may be synthetic, but I'm not stupid" -- the artificial person, from _Aliens_
